Charedi yeshiva student Aryeh Yerushalmi stripped nearly naked in a supermarket in Tel Aviv to protest the sale of hametz (bread and other leavened grain products) in the store during Passover. He had a strategically placed sock on as well.
Unlike the commenter’s on the article from Vos Iz Neias who as always decried the event as a chillul Hashem which it may have been, but I think its hilarious and a push in the right direction.
I doubt this man realized what he was doing for the entire Charedi movement by giving them a different way to protest other than their traditional violent protests with garbage burning. Of course I can imagine what would happen if it were a Charedi women with strategically placed socks, but hey all is good.
I am sort of looking forward to mass naked Chassid rally, but not in the gay sense, just in the funny sense.
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why is it super cool for CHeredim to partake in even greater Chillul Hashem’s that other secular goyim do, and they get praised for such? If a secular non-Jew did this, the Cheredi community would protest this for being untznius…yet, when a member of the Cheredi community does this, it is 100% kosher? I’m utterly confused
If there is a mass protest of Cheredim with socks over themselves, they may be confused with gay pride, and thus, it may pose as a ma’ars eiyin? If they spend so many hours pouring over dappim all day, why do they not have the smarts for this narishkeit?
Being frum means consulting with your Rabbi before you do anything like this.
I ask: Did his Rabbi condone this?
I wonder if he trimmed his zooken hatachtoin…
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Apparently the sock was strategically placed on his pinkie finger.
Well I found this hilarious – a naked charedi man protesting that a store is selling bread – these Charedim are plain old nuts, you don’t like it just don’t shop there – those boycotts seem to work pretty well.
is this like the naked cowboy charedi style?
Heh, PETA’s got nothing on this. For their next campaign, should they protest using animal furs for Bekishes/Shtreimls by showing a naked Choosid with a strategicly placed sock?
I find this hilarious as well. However, I don’t believe it.
Hesh, I want photographic proof.
PS. You had a link up to vote for your site the other day. I clicked on it but it did not work. Just took me to some random error-type page
(sorry so many typos today – the aluminum foil has blinded me and I am feeling like my grandmother at the moment – only she used all that plastic on the couches and walkways, etc.)
Sorry Leeba if I was going to venture into the world of nudity I would save it for some hotties…
Welllll????? What exactly are you saying, Hesh???
the chometz streaker
was there enough time for his shmeckle to rise?
Another Baron Cohen stunt, I presume?
Unfortunately, this is legitimate- for obvious reasons, there aren’t any pictures available, but articles have been published about it in reliable sources like Haaretz.
This is actually a repeat stunt. Last year, it happened in a Bat Yam supermarket, and this year in a Tel Aviv supermarket. (I guess he figured they’d be looking out for him this time.) The man was protesting the law that allows chametz to be sold in supermarkets over Pesach since they’re not considered public places, and he defended himself to police by explaining that they shouldn’t arrest him for public nudity since supermarkets aren’t public places. Sadly, I think he’s got a point.
This happened a year ago, you found an old article.
It was on Vos Iz Neias yesterday!!!
Leeba I am saying that if I were into the business of pornography I wouldn’t post naked charedi men
I find the story hard to believe. If it really happened, I highly doubt the guy was a real chassid, probably some pervert streaker trying to give them a bad name.
thre is no way a really charedi person would do this. probably some shmuck got dressed up to make an impression and a piont that wouldnt be as strong if he were just regular jew.
i cannot believe there are really people posting here that do not believe that it was an ACTUAL charedi guy who did this. ok forget about whether or not he should or should not have done it in terms of what that means for how correct he is in his frumness… he is charedi if he is from that community. people who sin or do things that dont go along with the group they are in, doesnt mean they arent part of that group. but that digression is a just semantics the point is..
PEOPLE. this happened. it is about time you stop denying things that don’t fit into your comfortable understanding of the world.
Are you bored by life in general and by the countless insipid and inane blogs you encounter while trying to find something amusing, stimulating and interesting? Do you yearn for intelligent and thought provoking chit-chat instead of the mindless, dull and semi-coherent drivel spewed out by the countless feeble minds that infest the blogosphere? Are you tired of communicating only with people who talk the way you do and think the way you do? Do you crave an adventure of the mind and are not afraid to brave the unknown landscape at the border of lunacy to find it? Well then, pack up your intellectual gear and start out bravely for I am waiting for YOU at HTTP://theyeshivabucher.blogspot.com
Shalom and zei gezunt until then!
LOL@ Religious Stuff!
Why don’t people believe things like this happen? We are all people, after all.
@Leeba
Same reason people don’t believe me when I tell them about Satmars who’ve offered me weed. And I quote, “vould you like to smoike a bloont?” When I was living in Williamsburg, there were a good number of bars that were frequented by Satmars who were trying to escape the community, get drunk, and have fun. Yes, they’re quite the party animals. I know there are readers of this site who would probably be offended if I told all the stories I’ve heard about these “Yoillies Gone Wild”, but people find it hard to believe that pritzus is so pervasive amongst them.
And it’s not just limited to Satmars in Villiamsboig. Stories have been related to me from Moonsey, New Skver, et al.
@ghottistyx
I understand. I am a social worker and have a few stories of my own, however, I never write under this name as it is my real one.
That said, I have a story of a woman I now know who is in her mid-50s. Way back in the late 80s, this woman left AU to go to New York. Suddenly she quit calling her mother. Now, if you are Jewish, you know that the sub-text of honour your mother and father, that you may live long upon the earth, yadda yadda, really means if you don’t call your mother she will begin calling hospitals and rabbis, not necessarily in that order.
Sure enough, this nice frum girl was known to be cooking up drugs of some sort for Rabbis and yeshiva students, who were calling their mothers..only for more money.
Needless to say, she alerted just one Rabbi here…who, within 24-hours had found her address and dispatched 4 big rabbis in New York to her apartment. They knocked, announced the name of the rabbi who sent them when she opened the door, and she went quietly with them.
So yea, it happens. A lot more than we like to talk about.
Hmm….fodder for another article, perhaps?
Hey! Don’t be so harsh on this pathetic sack. He was just making a statement. As a female, I may consider doing the exact same thing same thing if my right to eating gebroks on pesach is threatened. These radicals infiltrated Manischewitz. The pasta was somewhat edible until they decided to make it out of potato starch in order to appease the non-gebroks crowd who were beginning to feel that they were missing out.
Yes, I marvel at the ones who put on the front of being good Yiddin while doing it all in secret. Sort of the new Marranos.
The greatest thing they have going for them is the power of denial; no Jewish mother wants to think that her child could be involved with that. When I was in High School, I knew many cases of ‘if their Mammy and Tatty only knew…’ More than once I was told off by parents (I made myself a rather easy target by having longish hair and dressing a bit colorful) when I was thinking ‘do you even know what you son is probably doing right now?’
Another article? Yeah, we can write many. I can tell you about the time I spent one seder in Crown Heights. The one who invited me is a Lesbian dating a Fillipino, and her Father, who is a ger, is dabbling in Chabad. To make a long story short, I came really late (just in time for the meal), and everyone in the room was completely stoned off their rockers. The father takes one look at me and goes “Oh my God, Jesus came to our seder!” (irony?) Apparently, their maggid was constantly interluded with joints being passed around. There were a few guests there who were obviously practicing Lubobs (“wait, you’re Jewish?” and just when I’m expecting them to get me to try on tefillin or something, they give that stoner gigle and go “you look like James Hetfield…Metallica rocks…I can play ‘Master of Puppets’ better than you can…” or “I thought you were from the south, anyone ever tell you you look like Kid Rock?” all said while chain smoking) So come the end of the meal, I was the one person in the room who was still COMPLETELY straight. My friend goes “you know Hebrew, right? Good, since you’re the only one in the right state of mind now, can you finish this seder for us?” Oh, it was something.
U MISSED THE MAIN POINT!!!
it was not just a regular protest i choose to do nake to get attention!
the act of stripping itself WAS the protest!
last year the court ruled a store is not a ‘public’ place since it has walls, so the law forbidding the sell of Hamez in public does not apply there.
the purpose of stripping there was to show how wrong that rulling was, since it meant the law of forbidding to strip in public doesn’t apply to stores as well, and anyone can understand how wrong is that.
that’s the legal point i was making.
i also did it last year near my home in bat yam.
i’m not Chassid, by the way.