Hasidic Bus Ad Compares Women To ‘Ignoramuses’
Orthodox young women boarding bus in Jerusalem. Image by Getty Images
By Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt October 2, 2017
Advertisements for DvarMalchus.org, a weekly Lubavitch publication based out of Kfar Chabad, were spotted on an Israeli bus today that compared women to ignoramuses.
The advertisement said that, according to the Baal Shem Tov, a true leader “awakens the spark of Jewishness of each and everyone in Israel, including simple people, ‘am-haaretz’s (literally, ‘people of the land’, colloquial term for ‘ignoramuses’) and women.”
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