Haredim Censuring Yom Yerushalayim Event

This news piece seems a bit backwards, and I'd like to see someone try and call their bluff, just to see what happens.

In a committee meeting in the City of Jerusalem this week, the planning committee decided to invite Yardena Arazi to perform at the upcoming Yom Yerushalayim ceremony of the giving out of the Valuable Of Jerusalem Award. At the meeting, the haredi members protested the event and opposed the decision to invite Arazi to perform.

Nothing unexpected so far, right? They are upset that at an official ceremony, in which haredim will obviously be present, a woman is being invited to sing.

Wrong. It is more interesting than that.

It turns out that the reason the haredi councilmen oppose the event and object to the invitation to Arazi is because they are accusing the City Hall of discriminating against haredim, as their is a lack of proportion of Haredim being awarded the honor relative to their size in the local population.

Those on the opposite end of the political spectrum in Jerusalem are accusing the haredim of being sneaky,, as their intention is really to oppose her for being a female singer, and just using this as an excuse. the haredim deny it and say it is not possible that they were unable to locate a few haredim deserving of the award for doing positive things for the city.

The vote on the matter was tied, and the discussion will continue at the next meeting. (source: Mynet)

As I said above, I would like to see the councilmen and Nir Barkat find a bunch of haredi recipients of the award and add them to the ceremony and watch them accept but unable to ask Arazi to step down because they already said they have no problem with her performing.

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