After Three Days Of Harassment And Indignities, 18 Chareidi Girls Return To The US

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — After over three days of exhausting travel and after suffering indignities and humiliation at the hands of two airline companies, the 18 chareidi girls who were singled out and persecuted on their return from the Ukraine have finally landed at Newark airport courtesy of United Airlines.

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When they arrived at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport on Thursday evening, the girls were detained and told to pay a huge fine of $3000 after it was claimed that they had eaten food on their plane outside meal times in violation of COVID-19 guidelines. The girls had been forced to eat their own food outside the designated meal time because the flight did not carry food that complied with their community’s kosher standards.

At the same time, the Delta-KLM airline which they were travelling with singled them out for abusive treatment, harassing them for not wearing masks even as other passengers were not berated for similar violations. When they switched seats they were insulted by the flight attendants, who were described by relatives of the girls as “rude and impatient.” The girls claim that they were singled out from 50 other passengers due to the airline staff’s animosity towards Jews.

The group was later denied its request to board a later flight that would have still gotten them to New York before the start of Shabbat, when observant Jews are not allowed to travel by airplane. Eventually they were forced to fly to Antwerp where they were hosted by the local Jewish community.

On Sunday morning the group finally arrived in Newark airport and made their way to their homes.

, but the good news that they are bh back home and can finally unite with their anxiously waiting families that are looking out to see their daughters again!


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Ina
Ina
2 years ago

I am sure a Shabbos in Antwerp will be forever memorable and fixed almost everything!

D. FAult
D. FAult
2 years ago

Something missing here.
Why did they have to eat their food outside of meal time?

nothing
nothing
2 years ago

i see a lawsuit coming………….

Rats Rats DemocRATs.
Rats Rats DemocRATs.
2 years ago

Welcome back

P.S.
P.S.
2 years ago

Ridiculous! There is no such thing as a designated time for eating!!! I travel all the time and eat whenever I want to! What a crazy claim.

Ruby
Ruby
2 years ago

If it was bucherim misbehaving maybe , but girls coming back from kevarim dont make trouble and certainly not enough to warrant this nightmare , the question is how did things escalate to a full blown disaster on both sides.

Judith
Judith
2 years ago

I wonder why they couldn’t have eaten their own food the same time as everyone else on the flight . Unless you order in advance , airlines don’t carry kosher meals .

IMHO
IMHO
2 years ago

oy vey

Last edited 2 years ago by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
תכלית
תכלית
2 years ago

Full of misleading nonsense….. they misbehaved with Chutspa and Chilul Hashem.

I would suggest VIN act responsible with an editorial writeup what are the laws and guidelines for obeying the flight crew, especially covid19 period.