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07 April 2009

Two ultra-Orthodox Jewish newspapers Photoshop a photo of Israel's new cabinet, removing the two female ministers. [More:] I'm reminded of little children who cover their eyes, and think nobody can see them.
If it's immodesty they're concerned about, then blacking out the images makes sense. Replacing them with others is deception.

What's scary(ier) about these people is that they're all having 8-12 children each. Who are now growing up and starting to vote. A whole society of fundamentalists, as we have seen, is not healthy.
posted by Melismata 07 April | 13:21
Restrictions include using only Kosher telephones, and not accessing websites with content deemed inappropriate.

I take it this one's right out, then:

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posted by Atom Eyes 07 April | 13:39
I'm reminded of little children who cover their eyes, and think nobody can see them.

That's exactly what I thought -- if we pretend women don't exist, then so much the better!

And I've had my daily Atom Eyes guffaw now, so there's that to check off the list.
posted by mudpuppie 07 April | 13:56
One of my lecturers when I was doing my law degree at night school was an Orthodox Jew. I remember during a Tube strike, I walked miles to get to class. Only I and another woman were able to get there. This guy walked in, looked around and said "Ah, I see nobody's turned up" and he walked out and there was no class that night. To him we didn't exist.

We complained, but were told we were being racist and would be suspended if we persisted.
posted by essexjan 07 April | 14:39
Don't worry- even in Israel most Jews don't share these beliefs. You just hear about the crazier ones. Like with any country, we just get the news about the extremes. I am sure there've been some fringe papers in the U.S. that have done similarly crazy things.

In other words...
They're too sexy for this paper, to sexy for this paper, so sexy they're blocked oooout!
posted by rmless2 07 April | 16:02
What the hell is a kosher telephone?!

And immodest? Whoa, I must be a tramp for baring my ankles when I wear capris. We won't mention the tattoos that show when I do that.
posted by deborah 07 April | 17:06
Whoa, the kosher telephone is ingenious:
Dialing and other electronic operations on the "Shabbat phone" are performed in an indirect way so that the person using the phone is not directly closing electrical circuits. Instead, an electronic eye scans the phone buttons every two seconds.

If a button has been pressed, the eye activates the phone's dialing system. This indirect way of activation is called a grama.

I think the early ruling was that opening an electrical circuit counts as "kindling a fire", so this avoids that.
posted by TheophileEscargot 07 April | 17:20
As David Cross says, if there was a law that Jews had to stick something up their ass, they'd stick it in their back pocket and call it close enough.

Jews love their loopholes (see: eruv, crockpots, shabbos goys, lights on timers).
posted by birdie 07 April | 17:25
And immodest? Whoa, I must be a tramp for baring my ankles when I wear capris. We won't mention the tattoos that show when I do that.

I was sent home by the Haredi principal of my school once because my ankle-length skirt had slits that ended uncomfortably close to the bottom of my knee (for him, because they were well below my knee thank you very much).
posted by birdie 07 April | 17:28
Just goes to show, grama lets you get away with anything.

..I'll show myself out.
posted by lysdexic 07 April | 18:23
More like ultra-Orthodouche amirite?
posted by stilicho 07 April | 23:11
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