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| Religion, Gender and Airplanes; Plus, John Kasich's Faith Factor |
| March 18, 2016 |
A flight attendant asks 81-year-old Renee Rabinowitz to switch seats to accommodate an ultra-Orthodox man. Now she's suing the airline. Then, we learn how a fatal car crash ignited Republican presidential candidate John Kasich's faith. |
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| Does Your Religious Interpretation Trump My Seat Assignment? |
March 18, 2016 |
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This is the question 81-year-old Renee Rabinowitz found herself asking when she was asked to switch seats on a flight to Israel becase an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man didn't want to sit next to her, citing a strict interpretation of Jewish law that forbids even inadvertent contact with the opposite sex. Now, she’s taking the airline El Al to court in the name of gender equality.
Renee Rabinowitz, retired lawyer with a Ph.D. in educational psychology, who is suing the Israeli airline El Al
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| Religion and Women's Rights in the Public Sphere |
March 18, 2016 |
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Is it right for a flight attendant to ask a woman to switch seats to accommodate a religious man? We speak with Anat Hoffman, director of the liberal advocacy group Israel Religious Action Center, which is partnering with Renee Rabinowitz in her lawsuit against El Al airline. As we hear, the group has been taking a stand against gender segregation, not just in planes...but on buses, on sidewalks and even on the air waves.
We reached out to El Al for a response to Rabinowitz's case. In a statement, the airline told us its staff "maintains the highest levels of equal treatment and respect for all passengers," and that its employees "provide solutions to the concerns or requests from our customers whatever they might be, including seating requests on the airplane." The airline also said Renee Rabinowitz was asked if she would be willing to move to a new seat which was "perceived to be better," and that she was not obligated to do so.
Anat Hoffman, director of the Israel Religious Action Center. |
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| Memory Research and What the Bible Really Tells Us About Jesus |
March 18, 2016 |
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Author Bart Ehrman tackles a central question for scholars of the New Testament-- the accuracy of the text. Here’s the problem: Jesus died around 30 A.D., but the first gospel – Mark’s gospel – did not appear in writing until about 40 years later. So how were eyewitness accounts of Jesus’s life transmitted over time? Were they changed or embellished? And how accurate are the stories of Jesus’s life we have today? These are some of the issues Bart Ehrman takes on in his latest book, Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior.
Bart Ehrman, author and Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina |
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