Extremist Jewish Sects

[Schwadevivre]

There does not appear to be a thread for this type of subject and like (all?) other faiths the Jewish faith has its complement of nutters. Please note I will ask for the thread to be locked if it attracts anti-Semites to FTMB

First story, via Haaretz (warning, autoplay adverts) hat-tip to Failed Messiah

A group called "Committee for the Purity of the Camp" has set itself to enforcing modesty rules that they see in the religious laws of Judaeism.

An extremist ultra-Orthodox modesty monitoring group is demanding that advertisers in local newspapers in Beit Shemesh not publish ads showing photographs or silhouettes of girls, hair or women's shoes.

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But the new directives go further, with no-nos that include images of beds, women's clothing and mention of the words "pregnancy," "birth," "cantorial and Hasidic music" (even for men-only events) and "bed-and-breakfasts" (the guidelines suggest "rooms for rent" instead of the Hebrew word tzimerim). Other topics on the Committee for the Purity of the Camp blacklist include marital counseling, driver's ed for women and activities such as judo and boxing.

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Beit Shemesh, a city near Jerusalem that has seen a great deal of tension in the last few years over the ultra-Orthodox harassment of religious schoolgirls and efforts to impose sex segregation in certain parts of the city, has become a symbol of the country's struggle against religious extremism.

Newspapers that do not comply with the directives face the prospect of copies of the paper being removed from residents' mailboxes and burned, or their distributors being beaten, a store manager in Beit Shemesh told Walla.

 

[GNC]

Wasn't there a strict Jewish newspaper that airbrushed the women out of photographs of the recent peace march in Paris?

 

[Schwadevivre]

Wasn't there a strict Jewish newspaper that airbrushed the women out of photographs of the recent peace march in Paris?

Yes, the paper "HaMevaser" took out Merkel and the Mayor of Paris who is also a woman.

Then there was the Orthodox US paper Di Tzeitung who cropped Hillary Clinton and a White House Aide out of the situation room shot at the time of the Bin Laden raid.

 

[GNC]

The motives baffle me.