Segregation

New data maps Israel’s freedom divide: Liberal cities surge, conservative ones slip

The index measures municipal performance across 11 areas tied directly to daily life, including education oversight, gender-segregated events, religious budgets, and transparency.

Orthodox jews protest against Tel Aviv municipality Shabbat bus service, outside the home of Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai in Tel Aviv on December 7, 2019.
 Rabbi Warren Goldstein

It’s not black vs white: SA chief rabbi responds to Trump refugee program - opinion

 THE WRITER is photographed in the New Braunfels High School Unicorn 1950 Yearbook. Racial discrimination and the various sins that go with it are faded shadows of what they once were, says the writer.

Breaking barriers: a Jewish teen’s role in desegregation in 1950s Texas

 MK Limor Son Har-Melech and MK Gilad Kariv attend Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting in the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, on August 7, 2024.

Knesset advances controversial gender segregation bill for higher education


Jerusalem grocery bans women at certain times of the day - report

While some forms of gender segregation are legal, most forms of segregation resulting in discrimination in public services are banned.

 People walk in Mea Shearim neighborhood on November 22, 2022 in Jerusalem

Zionists helped defeat segregation in Baltimore - opinion

This story began in the autumn of 1946, when the Zionist activists known as the Bergson Group sponsored a Broadway play called 'A Flag is Born.'

Child survivors of the Holocaust ride aboard the S.S. Ben Hecht.

Louisiana governor to pardon plaintiff in landmark racial segregation case

Homer Plessy was arrested 1892, setting off a chain of events that led to the 1896 Supreme Court case.

AN AFRICAN AMERICAN uses a ‘colored’ water fountain in Segregation-era American South.

'Woke' America is no beacon of democracy - opinion

What is happening in America is that people are so “woke” that they eventually become racist taking us back in time to a period no thinking person wants to revisit.

People participate in a meditation walk in support of Black Lives Matter organized by the Portland Buddhist Peace Fellowship near the Justice Center in Portland, Oregon, U.S., September 1, 2020.

Israelis are most concerned with internal Arab-Jewish conflict - study

The majority of Jews in Israel do not perceive Israeli-Arabs as equals. * Only 25% of Arab-Israelis call themselves “Israeli”.

Violent riots broke out in Ramla last night amid the ongoing violence between Palestinians and Israelis in east Jerusalem.

Ruling on gender segregation in colleges is a mistake - opinion

The High Court ruling that allows the continuation of gender-segregated classes is a surrender to male students from a patriarchal culture, and is devastating as a model for Israeli society

Students at the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem earlier this year.

Iranian-linked cleric attacks Chicago for 'immorality, homosexuality'

The Iraq-based cleric Muqtada al-Sadr promotes gender segregation in Iraq.

Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr speaks in Najaf, Iraq May 17, 2018

Martin Luther King Day to be observed in Jerusalem

New study finds least integrated states in US are Iowa, Wisconsin and Washington, DC.

DR. MARTIN Luther King, Jr. addresses the crowd from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, during the March on Washington on August 28, 1963.

Segregation and dissimilarity

We calculated the Index of Dissimilarity, which determines the percentage of residents from one of the two groups being studied which would have to change its place of residence.

Dissimilarity Index

Saudi Arabia ends gender-segregated entrances for restaurants

Saudi Arabia required all restaurants to have one entrance for families and women, and another for men on their own.

FILE PHOTO: Women sit among men in a newly opened cafe in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, August 2, 2019