She Was Asked to Switch Seats. Now She’s Charging El Al With Sexism. - The New York Times

"Ms. Rabinowitz was comfortably settled into her aisle seat in the business-class section on El Al Flight 028 from Newark to Tel Aviv in December when, as she put it, “this rather distinguished-looking man in Hasidic or Haredi garb, I’d guess around 50 or so, shows up.” Conversation Starters Provocative looks at pressing issues. How Marco Rubio Could Lose Every State on Super Tuesday and Still Win As Some Iranians Register Dislike at Polls, Others Do So by Staying Home Scalia Took Dozens of Trips Funded by Private Sponsors Decline of Pollinators Poses Threat to World Food Supply, Report Says Swedish Girl Who Ran Away to Iraq Says She Had Not Heard of ISIS See More » The man was assigned the window seat in her row. But, like many ultra-Orthodox male passengers, he did not want to sit next to a woman, seeing even inadvertent contact with the opposite sex as verboten under the strictest interpretation of Jewish law. Soon, Ms. Rabinowitz said, a flight attendant offered her a “better” seat, up front, closer to first class. Reluctantly, Ms. Rabinowitz, an impeccably groomed 81-year-old grandmother who walks with a cane because of bad knees, agreed...."