I have been wondering why there have not been any crazy bans or chumras proposed by the ultra orthodox sects of Jews in quite some time. Just a few months back it seemed like every week there would be some sort of story about bannings and chumras, and all the sudden as if they needed some time off from the Charedi Chumra Patrol these stringencies ceased just like that.
I begining to miss writing articles detailing the funny reasons behind many of these chumras and bans, and the constant criticism I get for criticizing folks that must be doing good for their peeps. Then I received this article from Jameel about Charedi women in Ramat Beit Shemesh who have started to wear the full body burqa, because the shabbos robe is just not ugly enough. It seems that wearing just a dark baggy outfit and plastic haired wig could not scare the flirtatious people that hang around the chassidic neighborhoods of Ramat Beit Shemesh, so the ladies decided to take it into their own hands. Without the approval of the men, which is definitely bound to work some people up- they have donned the burqa, not many but enough to be noticed.
A while back I was thinking of what could be the next thing to be banned, and like any logical Jew I felt that the best thing they could ban in order to keep up with their philosophies- were women themselves. You see there is really no point of the women according to many people besides that of child making babies, cholent and doing the laundry. Banning women from public solves some issues that have come up recently, such as whom to charge for those Cherem Forms that they like to throw up on bus stop walls, and how to force the women to walk on their side of the street- when the Charedim themselves do not want cops in their neighborhoods. So naturally the solution is to ban women outright, from public places at least.
Now this whole Burqa thing is almost is a very weird situation for the higher ups, because while many Rabbis would love to see all the women reduced to giant sacks with wholes for the eyes, they do not want to be undermined of their power by having women chas v’shalom actually carrying out the decree themselves, whats a guy to do?
As long as they don’t start the honor killings, in frum neighborhoods I am cool with it, I am not charedi, so to me its just a matter of reporting. Fair and Unbalanced like Fox News.
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“Fair and Unbalanced like Fox News.”
o rly?
Good lord! Bangin’ biblical burqa babes bathe beautfically by broken bathhouse brouhaha. What else begins with B? Maybe this cracked out rebetzin will advocate beating the women if they remove the burqa. Not in the face! I saw the head covering thingie on women in Beis Yisroel, which kinda covered most of the upper torso. That was weird; this is weirder! It is a sign of the break from traditional rational judaism shown by these chareidim. Work is for lesser people, wife wears a burqa, you fear and despise anyone who is not like you: sounds pretty arab-like to me! Thankfully I think this faction is smallish; let’s see a “gadol” come out against this idiot rebetzin! Any bets on how long that will be?
I really don’t think that this article is real. I know it seems to link to Haaretz, but I went directly to the Haaretz websites in Hebrew and in English, and neither one had this article. I think someone’s playing a very sophisticated joke.
nothing says inconspicuous like Jewish women wearing burqas. What I’d like to understand is what causes the quoted woman to not want men to look at her at all. And how does she prove she’s Jewish by showing people her children? “Yossele, drop trou so the nice soldier can see you’re circumcised?” Yikes. But, whatever they like. As long as they’re not telling me how to dress and they’re happy, I really don’t care how they dress ( it’s certainly not my own cup of public dress tea, though).
Rachel, I would think that this is a joke as well; if I had not seen with my own eyes freaky chareidi women in meah shearim wearing the hijab style headcovering. When in the history of the jewish people have women done this crap?
Even if its fake, the fact that it is believable is real mans that it could in fact be real.
“I really don’t think that this article is real. I know it seems to link to Haaretz, but I went directly to the Haaretz websites in Hebrew and in English, and neither one had this article. I think someone’s playing a very sophisticated joke.”
The Ha’Eretz Article
If it’s a joke, it’s a good one because it’s so believable.
Oh my gosh! This is not even one of those things where we can say “It’s ok for them but we are not on that level” because this cannot be what G-d wants of us as women! I once heard a speech on tznius in which the speaker said that the face and hands are the parts of one’s body that really show who we are, and that is why they are always shown- men are supposed to focus on who a woman is, not what her body looks like. This is such a distortion of halacha, it really nauseates me!
This is another case of people taking the Torah and twisting it to fit their Psycosis.
Frum librarian’s point completely blows any claim that this is a higher level of tsnius to pieces.
If anything could disillusion a BT, especially a Baalat Teshuvah, it’s this.
No matter how much you cover up, for some it’s never enough.
yochanan, you mock the jewish sharia law?! 100 lashes with a wet tallis!
Thank you Commonsense for that comment, I am rolling.
inbreeding leads to really weird looking women. kudos for covering up. now if you’d diet too…
The problem with making them diet is that then you may be able to see certain outlines that deem them as women.
Did you intend this to be funny? It is not.
I did intend it to be funny, didnt come out that great, but I did need a post to throw along with the article.
Sad, sad, sad. Haven’t they heard of beged akum??
LMAO
I thought you linked me on your blogroll? But I’m not there, boo-hoo! If you link me, I’ll link you, too. (Isn’t that poetic?)
I am writing a post about this very subject: the hijab-wearing Jew.
Will post it soon…please visit!
This article made me wonder when the Jewish Jim Jones is going to come along.
i’m not sure if it reached the news in the u.s. already, but the head of the cult was arrested yesterday for child abuse, and apparently the charges against her are going to include incest.
sh, that’s terrible. very sorry to hear that.
I just got an email about this- what a bunch of retards!
hesh, I can’t read that fast without vowels. is this a joke? http://7fatcow.com/2008/02/02/charedim-to-ban-hard-long-vegetables/