84 posts categorized "Extreme Sniut"

May 23, 2013: Haredi Activists Try To Ban Commercial Air Travel
Comments: 20 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Women & Judaism
Do not travel on commercial airplanes because of the 'immodestly' dressed passengers and crew, and because of the 'immodest' movies, an ad placed by haredi kanoim (activists) says. [Hat Tip: Burich.] Related articles Haredi Modesty Squad Bans Men's Tight-Fitting Pants...

May 23, 2013: Haredi Family From Lev Tahor Cult Busted After Trying To Flee Israel By Illegally Crossing Into Jordan
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel
The family apparently could not legally leave Israel because of an ongoing family court case initiated by the father’s relatives. Women from the haredi Lev Tahor cult Haredi Family From Lev Tahor Cult Busted After Trying To Flee Israel By...

May 5, 2013: Hasidic Group Sells Special Eyeglass Stickers To Blind Hasidim From The “Immodesty” Around Them
Comments: 36 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim
A Breslov hasidic organization is selling eyeglass modesty stickers and a hood that, when worn in tandem provide “full eye protection,” by preventing the wearer from seeing immodest things – or, for that matter, much of anything else. Hasidic Group...

April 11, 2013: Picture Of The Day
Comments: 61 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Women & Judaism
Make of this what you will. [Hat Tip: Bprebbetzin via HW.]

April 3, 2013: New Haredi Book Series Tells Preschoolers Ponytails Are Immodest
Comments: 21 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
A good Jewish girl should stay at home, comb her hair in two braids - not just one immodest ponytail – and close each button of her blouse. Go out for a walk? Skip or run? Absolutely not! Why? Because...

March 17, 2013: Haredi Paper Blurs Out Faces Of Children's Dolls
Comments: 28 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Women & Judaism
The Monsey Community Connections blurs out the faces of children's dolls for "modesty reasons." [Hat Tip: HeathenHassid.] Related articles Women's Laughter May Cause Yeshiva Students To Sin Haredim Lash Out At Israel's "Government Of Evil" Haredim Threaten To Launch A...

March 7, 2013: Satmar-Hasid-Owned Newspapers Cut Slain Woman Out Of Her Own Wedding Picture For "Modesty" Reasons
Comments: 64 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Women & Judaism
The Satmar-hasid owned Der Blatt and Di Tzeitung Yiddish newspapers cut out Raizy Glauber, killed with her husband Nachman and her unborn baby when their livery cab was struck by a hit and run driver in Brooklyn, from her own...

February 25, 2013: Queen Esther Banned
Comments: 12 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Women & Judaism
After being criticized in previous years for blurring out the faces of little girls in toy store Purim costume ads for "modesty reasons” normative halakha would seem to reject, this year some toy stores owned by or catering to haredim...

February 24, 2013: Women's Laughter May Cause Yeshiva Students To Sin
Comments: 95 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Women & Judaism
Women and girls should stay out of sight and out of hearing on Purim, a haredi modesty ad in Monsey says. And if they must be where men can see or hear them, they certainly should not laugh, because their...

February 18, 2013: Haredi Modesty Squad Leaders Busted For Kidnapping, Assault, Other Crimes
Comments: 22 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel
During the undercover investigation leading uo to the arrests, police discovered that the two modesty squad leaders were known to haredim in the city but haredim preferred to ignore what the modesty squad was doing rather than speak out against...

February 18, 2013: Video: Rio's Orthodox And Haredi Jews Flee City
Comments: 33 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , MO & Chardal
Rio de Janeiro's Orthodox and haredi Jews reportedly "flee" Rio to avoid the "danger" and "immodesty" of – Carnival, the Brazilian version of Mardi Gras. [Hat Tip: Devorah.]

February 10, 2013: Haredi Burka Cult Family Flees After Baby Dies From Alleged Neglect
Comments: 10 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics
A baby is dead, a haredi family is missing and in the face of a looming police crackdown, the anti-Zionist haredi umbrella organization Edah Haredit has reportedly put out its version of an all points bulletin to try to find...

February 8, 2013: Burka Cult Baby Found Dying, Parents Nowhere To Be Found
Comments: 16 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
There’s been another tragedy involving a child in the haredi Burka Cult sect, this time in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim where a one-yeear-old baby was found near death on the floor of an apartment. Haredi Burka Cult mother...

February 6, 2013: Women Must Walk Behind Their Husbands But Never Along Side Them, Vizhnitzer Rebbe Says
Comments: 41 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
The Vizhnitzer Rebbe released new regulations to his close hasidim, Behadrei Haredim reported – regulations that mimic some of the extreme modesty regulations of Gerrer (Gur) hasidim. The Rebbe instructed hasidim to make sure that grooms are instructed on the...

February 6, 2013: Haredi Newspaper Hamodia Censors Images Of Women’s Shoes; Handbags Okay, Paper Says, Shoes Not
Comments: 27 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
When asked about the censorship, Hamodia said that the paper allows the publication of photos of accessories such as handbags, but it censors feminine clothing items including shoes – even if no one is wearing them – due to modesty...

February 3, 2013: British Hamodia Reprints Anti-Israel Cartoon But Blurs Out Women's Faces
Comments: 50 | Categories: Antisemitism , Bans & Censorship , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
That's right. Hamodia felt the need to blur out the faces of dying Arab women in a cartoon because in the mid of haredim showing those anguished faces – or the faces and bodies of any women – would not...

January 14, 2013: Haredi Paper “Sternly” Warned Over Snowman Picture
Comments: 10 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
A beit din, religious court, in the haredi town of Beitar Illit summoned a local weekly shopper-newspaper’s editor-publisher to a hearing Sunday after his paper allegedly caused a breech in the community’s modesty standards by publishing a scandalous picture of...

January 8, 2013: Netanyahu Government Tells High Court It Doesn’t Want To Draft Haredim Because It Costs The IDF Too Much Money Due To Haredi Gender Segregation
Comments: 18 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Religion , Women & Judaism
The Government of Israel has responded to High Court of Justice petitions demanding that haredim be drafted and serve in the country’s military as all other Jewish citizens do by claiming that haredi 'modesty demands' and their demands for complete...

December 31, 2012: Pee Wee Basketball Team Forced To Forfeit Game When Orthodox Opponent Demands That It Bench Its Lone Girl Player
Comments: 38 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Israel , MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
The Orthodox team of little 10-year-old boys demanded that a non-Orthodox team bench its lone little 10-year-old girl player or the Orthodox team said it would refuse to play the game. When the non-Orthodox team refused to comply with the...

December 20, 2012: Haredi Modesty Booklet Urges Women To Stay Indoors, Not To Use Shampoo If They Do Go Out
Comments: 35 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
A woman's place is in the home, away from strange men she may arouse in the marketplace, claims a new haredi modesty booklet. Ma'ariv reports that the booklet urges haredi women to stay at home. They should chose to pay...

December 20, 2012: Schoolchildren Harassed By Screaming Haredi Man, Wife Over “Immodest” Dress
Comments: 19 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel
"It happened for the first time last year. Some girls wore shorts and were passing by his house. His wife came outside and began screaming to get out of there because they were wearing clothes that were too revealing. In...

November 21, 2012: Haredim Illegally Gender Segregate BOMB SHELTERS
Comments: 45 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
Haredim in Ashdod, probably Gur hasidim, have reportedly illegally gender segregated bomb shelters, banning women and girls from a building's shelter that haredim have designated for men only. Women presumably have to use the shelter in an adjoining building, meaning...

October 23, 2012: Haredi Girl Who Joined Burka Cult Forbidden By Court From Leaving Israel
Comments: 31 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
A source familiar with the case says the girl’s family suspects that cult members are trying to smuggle the girl outside Israel to an area near Montreal, Canada, where she could hide inside the Lev Tahor haredi cult. Haredi burka...

October 23, 2012: Haredi News Site Reports Former First Lady's Speech But Only Posts Husband's Picture
Comments: 20 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Women & Judaism
The haredi news website Matzav dot com reports that former first lady Laura Bush is the keynote speaker at a fundraising dinner of a Detroit haredi school system. The problem? She's the keynote speaker, her husband isn't on the agenda,...

October 21, 2012: Daughter Joins Burka Cult, Haredi Parents Arrested
Comments: 15 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
When Israeli haredim need a professional cultbuster, who do they turn to? Haredi burka cult members in Jerusalem Daughter Joins Burka Cult, Haredi Parents Arrested Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com When Israeli haredim need a professional cultbuster, who do they turn...

October 19, 2012: Haredi Daycare Playgroup Ad Blurs Out Pictures Of Little Girls
Comments: 53 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Women & Judaism
An ad for a haredi daycare center in Monsey, New York blurs out the faces and bodies of little girls. Originally posted at 8:46 pm CDT 10-18-2012 [Hat Tip: HeathenHassid.]

October 15, 2012: Haredi “Taliban Woman” Reportedly Refuses To Go To Hospital On Shabbat, Gives Birth At Home
Comments: 82 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Women & Judaism
A pregnant haredi burka cult woman in labor refused transportation to a hospital because she did not want to violate Shabbat law. Haredi Burka Cult women in Monsey, New York Haredi “Taliban Woman” Reportedly Refuses To Go To Hospital On...

September 14, 2012: Lakewood, New Jersey Modesty Sign
Comments: 24 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Women & Judaism
"Dear Sisters, Please be aware that when schmoozing an this corner, the streetlight shines directly on you, thereby making the nisayon [test] for men passing by far greater!!"

August 27, 2012: Egged, Cnaan Media Dodge High Court Appeal, Refuse To Run Ads Depicting Women – Again
Comments: 11 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
The bus company that provides public bus service in Israel’s capital will not run ads on its buses that have any pictures or depictions of any human beings – even males or babies. Yerushalmim's ads depicting women in short sleeves...

August 27, 2012: Cartoon Images Of Women No Longer Kosher For Passover?
Comments: 28 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
The iconic, stylized cartoon logo of a modestly dressed woman sprinkling salt has been removed from Salit salt packages sold in some haredi stores. Cartoon Images Of Women No Longer Kosher For Passover? Israel Salt Company Removes Part Of Its...

August 20, 2012: Haredi Rabbis Ban Tight Pants – For Men
Comments: 62 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel
“There is a strict Biblical prohibition against wearing tight clothing like the gentiles, as stated: ‘You shall not follow in their ways.’ Wearing tight pants is forbidden because of that reason.…And those who wear (such garments) are sinful and cause...

August 12, 2012: Report: Lev Tahor Cult Uses Violence, Extortion, Manipulation To Terrorize Members
Comments: 20 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Women & Judaism
Part One of an in-depth Hebrew series of reports on Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans and his haredi Lev Tahor cult exposes violence, extortion and manipulation by Helbrans used to keep his cult members under his control. Women in the Lev Tahor...

August 8, 2012: Haredi Eyeglasses Meant To Blur Out Women Also Come With Blinders
Comments: 46 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
Discerning haredi male customers can not only buy those blurry eyeglasses meant to make it difficult for wearers to see women on the street, they can also buy blinders and special hoods to make it nearly impossible to see anything...

August 6, 2012: New Haredi Eyeglasses Blur Vision So Men Don't See Women
Comments: 113 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
New haredi eyeglasses marketed in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem are meant to blur vision to prevent men from seeing women on the street. The new glasses blur the vision of the men who wear them, so these men...

August 3, 2012: No Women's Faces
Comments: 38 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Women & Judaism
A small haredi organization in Queens, New York, Torah Anytime, has lots of free classes taught by women for women. But unlike the classes taught by men for men or by men for women, the female teachers' faces are not...

August 3, 2012: Monsey Haredi Weekly Blurs Out 'Immodestly' Dressed Cartoon Figures Of 4-Year-Old-Girls
Comments: 72 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Women & Judaism
Community Connections, a Monsey, New York haredi weekly paper, has blurred out the legs and chest of two cartoon figures depicting 4-year-old girls. The cartoon is part of advertisement for a haredi play group for 2-, 3-, and 4-year-old boys...

June 17, 2012: “Taliban Mother” To Be Released From Prison Today
Comments: 19 | Categories: BTs , Crime, etc. , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
One of Israel’s most notorious child abusers will be released from prison today. The woman – who lived in Beit Shemesh with her husband and family and who became known as the “Taliban Mother” because she covered herself and her...

June 15, 2012: Orthodox And Haredi Teen Girls Much More Likely To Visit Internet Porn Sites Than Non-Orthodox Teen Girls, Study Finds
Comments: 51 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics , MO & Chardal , Religion , Web/Tech
Orthodox and haredi teen girls are almost two times as likely as secular teens to view Internet porn, a new Bar-Ilan University study has found. Orthodox And Haredi Teen Girls Much More Likely To Visit Internet Porn Sites Than Non-Orthodox...

May 31, 2012: Married Through A Hole In The Sheet
Comments: 36 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
The haredi demand for 'modesty' and gender segregation reaches an extreme new low. Two Jewish burka cult "Taliban" women in Monsey, NY in 2011 Extremist ‘Taliban’ Chasnah in Bnei Brak Yeshiva World There was a unique chasnah [hatuna, wedding ceremony...

April 26, 2012: Walmart Has Magazine-Free Checkout Aisle For Hasidim
Comments: 75 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim
The Walmart store near the Satmar village Kiryas Joel promotes its magazine-free checkout aisle for Satmar hasidim. [Via: I'm a dropout.]

April 24, 2012: Haredi Girls School Bans Aqua Colored Shoes
Comments: 29 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Women & Judaism
"Your daughter came to school with aqua- colored shoes. This is from the colors that are not allowed in school." One half of the pair of offending aqua colored shoes The unnamed school is allegedly in Brooklyn. The picture of...

March 29, 2012: Birth Haredi Style
Comments: 87 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Women & Judaism
We had a patient the other day, very very Orthodox — he wouldn’t even make eye contact with his own wife. He would come in with his head down, staring at the floor — he probably couldn’t even describe me,...

March 23, 2012: More Haredim Demand Gender Segregation On El Al Flights
Comments: 47 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
Last month, a Hebrew Facebook page titled "Herem [excommunication against] El Al" featured an in-flight photograph taken during an El Al flight from Brazil to Israel that showed makeshift mechitzahs [partitions] taped to the backs of four passengers' seats. Ultra-Orthodox...

March 16, 2012: Inside The Lev Tahor Haredi Cult
Comments: 29 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Women & Judaism
The book was published by the community in Canada and thousands of copies have been distributed throughout the haredi world. Some are sent by mail but mainly they are passed from hand to hand, under the table, in synagogues and...

March 15, 2012: Haredim To Open Gender Segregated Market In Jerusalem
Comments: 17 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
"It is our intention to establish a market that would be similar to Machne Yehuda and would include only strictly kosher (mehadrin) stalls. There will be no interaction between men and women, a complete separation of the sexes." Machane Yehuda...

March 12, 2012: Haredi Rabbis Force Restaurant To Sideline Female Servers
Comments: 26 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
A haredi kosher supervision agency forces a restaurant to sideline all its waitresses due to modesty concerns. Heimishe Essen is one of Rehavia's oldest restaurants, serving traditional Ashkenazi food to the Jerusalem neighborhood's residents for many years. Rehavia is an...

March 9, 2012: Girl Thrown Out Of Orthodox High School For Working With Boys
Comments: 26 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Israel , MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
Efrat Daniel, an 18-year-old from Dimona, has been sitting at home for the past three months instead of going to the Shalhevet HaDarom High School in the city. The reason: The institution has declared that Efrat's decision to work at...

March 9, 2012: Inside A Haredi Cult
Comments: 15 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim
A rare look inside the closed world of the Lev Tahor ba'al teshuva hasidic cult that spawned the "burka" or "Taliban" women. Lev Tahor women Pure as the driven snow, or hearts of darkness? Haaretz spent five days with the...

February 16, 2012: Haredi Health Minister Walks Out When Little Girls Choir Sings
Comments: 50 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
Rabbi Yakov Litzman, a Gerrer hasid, is Israel's Deputy Minister of Health. The title Deputy Minister of Health is a legal fiction. There is no actual Minister of Health. Litzman holds the Deuty title in order to avoid having to...

February 15, 2012: Rethinking Jewish Law's Call For Female Modesty
Comments: 57 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , MO & Chardal , Sefardim , Women & Judaism
Understanding how halakha's modesty laws really apply in a modern society. A Modesty Proposal: Rethinking Tseniut Understanding the laws of modesty in modern society Rabbi Marc D. Angel • Conversations (the journal of Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals) The...

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