A Cab Driver's Lament

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"So it's not an easy way for a single mother to make a living - especially one who's going through a complicated life transition. When Bat Sheva embarked on her current career, she was a wife and mom living in ultra-Orthodox Telz Stone, a 20-minute drive west of Jerusalem. Being a cab driver didn't go over well in that community nor did her divorce. "People wouldn't talk to me, as if they were afraid it was infectious." With bitterness in her voice, she calls the town, "Sin City."

"As the cab driver goes, so goes the nation." Haim Watzman wrote an new article for the Jerusalem Report. A Cab Driver's Lament -Jerusalem Post.

"Times may be tough for single moms, and many others, but when times are tough, the cab drivers keep on driving. For Bat Sheva, it's not just a job, it's a passion." (via South Jerusalem)

I give credit to Haim for his choice of the subject, but alas he just scracthed the surface.