Carnivals staged by local Monsey haredi charities to raise money are immodest, a haredi letter-writer says, because they allow children above the age of three of different genders to stand next to each other while playing carnival games. Monsey needs to have carnivals with separate hours for each gender, the letter-writer insists.
In haredi newspapers and shoppers like the Monsey Community Connections, where the following letter can be found in the 8-7 to 8-14-2014 issue on page 124, anonymous letters like this are frequently written by the newspaper's own editor and are meant to "repair" a "breach" in the community's morals.
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