Last week there was some news about a company in Israel marketing personal mechitzas for Charedim traveling on planes that don’t want to watch movies or wrestle with some immodestly dressed seat mate for the arm rest and I think it’s absurd, and kind of funny actually. It kind of reminds me of the weddings I have been to with mixed seating/dancing that have a cluster of tables surrounded by a mechitza, so God forbid those people won’t look at mixed dancing. I always wondered how they could justify eating the food at such a pritzusdicke event.
I guess I always figured these charedim to be on such lofty levels that if a move cam on they would be able to avert their eyes and do other things. Besides, don’t most planes have personal screens anyway, and if that were the case they could just shut them off – or is the desire to see movies on a plane that strong. Or maybe they will be tempted by all of the half asleep ladies wearing sweatpants. Or are they tempted by the untznius ladies modeling medicine balls in the sky mall magazines?
Dare I say that I think personal mechitzas are a chillul hashem, aren’t we Jews not supposed to draw attention to ourselves for stupid reasons. I have even heard arguments for tucking your tzitzis in when people may just look at you and wondering why tampon strings are coming out of your shirt.
You will also notice in the picture that it appears to be an over-glorified plastic bag that probably allows for breathing – but how on earth will one be able to thumb dip while they learn, learn bechavrusa or throw bleach onto women wearing red? I am also wondering if they will make smaller sizes so the children can use them too?
There is no beter way to draw attention to yourself and make it very awkward for those trying to get out of your aisle or wrestle you for your armrest, than throw up a wall. I think it’s completely insane and just another reason for the mass public to hate the Jews.
Photo credit to Jameel
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This has to be a joke. I believed it until I saw the picture
Sadly it’s not a joke – click the link I threw in to the Jpost news story
They could carry one of those pop-up sukkahs, minus the schach. I think it’s a great idea – guys who have a problem with seeing women in public spaces should be the ones to cover up for a change.
Yes but those armrests they aren’t using will go to waste – empty armrests are valuable on a plane. They also won’t be allowed to sit in an emergency exit row and what would happen if they needed to evacuate the plane and the movies were still on – they may need a heter.
Why without the schach? Then you’d get that lovely “outdoor” scent on the plane, which is MUCH better than recycled air smell. I know Monsey has segregated buses, I’m surprised that there isn’t a plane somewhere with a mechitza on it.
my uncle Yanki asked his rebbi if he should attend my mixed seating wedding. The rebbi (who wasn’t nearly as stupid as my uncle) said not only should he attend, but that he was obligated to go. Nevertheless, Yanki spent the wedding behind one of those screens that conceal unused chairs and tables in the reception hall.
yeah. With other women behind the mechitza also. ( more privacy) oo la la.
I don’t think that this is the reason the mass public hate Jews (as long as they don’t make them wear it). I’d rather say that this is the reason the Moderns & Shebabbniks [Off-ds] hate Chareidim.
You can tell it’s a spoof. The guy’s wearing jeans! And a true frummak wouldn’t wear green – the mechitza would be black.
Freilichen Purim!!! (I hope it’s just a Purim Spiel)
Win-win situation….Now these black hats can pick their nose without disgusting the people around them, as well as not staring people down who are unlike them.
We have not heard the final word from the Lakewood rabbonim on the required denier of the nylon.
How long before it can’t be used unless it has two hechsherim.
A lampshade could also work. And more stylish too.
I don’t think this device, as pictured, is acceptable, you can be looking at all types of assur things in there and no one could see.
Exactly! This should be marketed to the whole world as a porn screen!!!
I want 10%
Looking at porn on airplanes is illegal since 9/11, thanks a lot Al Qaeda!
that looks like the pop up collapsible laundry basket I used to have in college, just with the bottom cut off.
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Whitmor-Collapsible-Laundry-Hamper/9720304?sourceid=44444444440183940839
I have never flown El-Al but, I have heard that they have a section on the aircraft designated for frummies with no movies and segregated seating. If this is so, then why would they need to have these invidual mechitzas?
Another thing, if these people are unable to control their sexual fantasies when sitting next to someone of the opposite gender then they should not be flying at all-or at the very least not on their own. Let their mammys come with them and hold their hand so they don’t get influenced by their surroundings.
If you look at the picture when you click on it to enlarge it, it becomes clear that it’s photoshopped like heck.
The picture is photo shopped – the story is real
Other possible solutions
1) Blinders
2) Eye masks and ear plugs
3) Sedation
4) The Humane Society’s Spay/Neuter Clinic only charges $29.99
Eyesight must be declared Asur!
Hearing, too. Don’t the gedolim slobber and drool when they tell us the mere sound of a woman’s voice is enough to drive men into an uncontrollable frenzy of lust?
Lobotomy is a chiyuv. If a man thinks about a woman, it’s forbidden. The only solution? Lobotomy!
Here’s my slogan:
Lobotomy, it’s the next best thing to thinking!
sorry hesh you got tricked into this one. since when is jpost the bastion of truth? i saw it on jpost it must be true. even they were tricked ….. happy to have a chance to show how crazy and right wing the frummies are. its a total purim joke …. an early one at that. google it youll see
relax-max
I’ve heard of gspot. I don’t know about jspot.
It’s an upside down laundry basket!
People! If you would see the link that Heshy used to hat-tip me, you would see I have 2 versions of the ad — one with a guy wearng jeans, and one with a guy wearing much more yeshivish pants.
And yes, its a hamper from IKEA. $9.99 All the info is in the post.
My son modeled the upside down hamper….
Yet, the JPost story is quite serious.
The thing is even if this story’s a pre-emptive Purim joke it’s very believable, which is a sad commentary unto itself. After all Charedim pushed for mahadrin buses and “nullifying” conversions (in spite of the fact that there’s no halachic source for that).
Pah! The Sefardi version has been around for centuries, and is much more stylish – actually like modified tefillin. Judge by yourselves:
http://www.franceskayphoto.co.uk/PhotoAlbum2/1916-donkey-showing-blinker.jpg
I suppose that men cannot be trusted with eyeballs.
No way that ad is real, right?
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