{"id":37870,"date":"2014-10-07T16:22:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T16:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=37870"},"modified":"2014-10-07T16:22:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T16:22:53","slug":"new-information-plane-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/israel\/new-information-plane-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"New Information Revealed About Ultra-Orthodox Plane Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/plane_art-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"plane_art\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-post-37870 wp-image-37873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/plane_art-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/plane_art.jpg 418w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Last Saturday night, after three days of being off-line due to Rosh Hashana and Shabbos, I powered up my iPhone, and the emails started flooding in. Apparently during the holiday a story broke about a pre-Rosh Hashana El Al flight to Israel (LY4) which took off from JFK and was full of Hasidic men who refused to sit in their seats (as the seats were next to women) \u201ccausing the plane to be severely delayed.\u201d Ynet published the original article which claimed that there were \u201chundreds of men\u201d refusing to sit. Many well-read news outlets like the Daily News, the NYPost, Gothamist, and Washington Post picked up the article. One woman was quoted saying the trip was \u201can 11 hour nightmare.\u201d The Telegraph UK reported that the plane was delayed for \u201cseveral hours.\u201d (It was the most read article on their site that week.)<\/p>\n<p>I was curious to get to the bottom of the scandal. The entire trip to Israel from JFK is only ten and a half hours, so an eleven hour trip wouldn\u2019t be that delayed. After attempting to reach the reporter of the original article as well as the one person who was quoted in it (only one person with a full name was quoted), I went to social media to find my own sources.<br \/>\nI discovered two surprising things: number one \u2013 the original article (according to the source I found) seems to have been greatly exaggerated. Number two \u2013 the same flight which took off two days earlier, but was not written about (according to another source I found) was delayed by almost two hours after hundreds of Haredi men refused to sit. I felt better and worse all at the same time!<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article at <a href=\"http:\/\/jewinthecity.com\/2014\/10\/new-information-revealed-about-ultra-orthodox-el-al-plane-scandal\/\">jewinthecity.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday night, after three days of being off-line due to Rosh Hashana and Shabbos, I powered up my iPhone, and the emails started flooding in. Apparently during the holiday a story broke about a pre-Rosh Hashana El Al flight to Israel (LY4) which took off from JFK and was full of Hasidic men who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":790,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New Information Revealed About Ultra-Orthodox Plane Scandal - OU Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/israel\/new-information-plane-scandal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Information Revealed About Ultra-Orthodox Plane Scandal - OU Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Last Saturday night, after three days of being off-line due to Rosh Hashana and Shabbos, I powered up my iPhone, and the emails started flooding in. 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