UPDATE: Hassidic Singer Will NOT Sing in a Mixed Seating Concert

Court Rules That It’s ILLEGAL To Have Separate Seating
The bolsheviks are at it again

YWN:  Moti Steinmentz Backs Out Of Concert. Steinmetz told Kikar Shabbos: “This is a time of religious persecution and this is the chosen time for us to be Mekadesh Shem Shamayim. The High Court will not decide what is appropriate for us nor what we will do.”

Steinmetz has in the past canceled his participation in many large concerts and performances that had mixed seating added: “There is no way that I will perform to a mixed audience or in a hall without a Mechiza. This goes against all of my ideals.”

Degel Hatorah MK Moshe Gafni described the ruling as “evil” and “appropriate for Tisha Be’av, the day of the destruction, and will cause many people and youth not to participate in the event.” He also called on anyone going to the event to voluntarily separate along gender lines.

Reminds me of what the BOLSHEVIKS imposed on the Volozhin Yeshiva (*edict of 1888) aishdos

Justice Yonatan Avraham wrote in the court’s decision: “I prohibit the enforcement of separate seating during the event. Each person who attends the event will be allowed, based on their own decision, where they will be during the event. It is also prohibited for the ushers or security personnel involved in organizing the event, or any other interested party involved in planning the event, to perform any action that will cause a forced separation based on gender during the event. I hereby instruct the organizers, ushers, security personnel and those seating participants, to prevent any attempt to enforce gender separation and to thwart and attempt to put up signs instructing gender separation or any type of blockage or mechiza, or any announcement stating that separation should take place. I hereby instruct them to involve the police who will be stationed at the event should any such instance arise.”

"This isn't a court ruling - its anti-religious trolling’"

Minister Bezalel Smotrich (United Right) excoriated an Israeli court Monday over its decision barring gender-separate seating at a haredi concert in northern Israel Sunday.

“This isn’t a court ruling – its trolling,” Smotrich said Monday morning during an interview with Reshet Bet Monday morning.

“There is an explicit article in the anti-discrimination law regarding goods and services that permits events to be held with gender separation, and this ruling doesn’t even mention it or relate to it at all.”

Smotrich argued that, despite the ruling’s claim to the contrary, the government had never ruled against gender separation, saying that the 2013 decision cited by the court only established a special team to study the issue of gender separation, adding that its findings were never adopted.

“Let’s make things clear. There is no government decision from 2013 – there was a decision to form a team led by Limor Livnat. The report by the special inter-ministerial team was never adopted by a government decision. In 2013 I was neither a Knesset Member nor a member of the government. This whole [case] is an attempt to force upon the religious public things which are against its beliefs and lifestyle.” arutzsheva

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*THE EDICT OF 1888 (as of 1892): “the edict required secular studies from 9am to 3pm, and closing the school at dark. This would leave no time at all for Torah study for much of the year, and very little during the rest.”