http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/stop-the-madness/ The Marketplace of Ideas Sat, 18 May 2013 10:30:45 +0300 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/stop-the-madness/#comment-75624 Dov Blair Epstein Mon, 12 Nov 2012 07:26:27 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=77574#comment-75624 shhh! get your place, woman!

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/stop-the-madness/#comment-75626 Dov Blair Epstein Mon, 12 Nov 2012 07:26:27 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=77574#comment-75626 shhh! get your place, woman!

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/stop-the-madness/#comment-64750 Varda Epstein Mon, 12 Nov 2012 07:22:27 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=77574#comment-64750 I thought there were no hot women other than I?

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/stop-the-madness/#comment-64746 Dov Blair Epstein Mon, 12 Nov 2012 07:20:52 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=77574#comment-64746 My oldest son is engaged to be married, and so at the wedding, I'm inviting all the hot women to sit next to me…if my wife lets. On the other hand, what do you care if Rabbis make this demand…unless it's adhered by public institutions against the will of the public, then there IS nothing to worry. And on the other hand, if people WANT to adhere to it, then there's no complaint either. maybe , in their deepest desires, they want to move to the right. Sounds like a real desire to just bellyache. I never suffered once from not sitting next to women, or my wife, at events. And if BAr Ilan University wants to move to the right….it's their perogative, they own the store.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/stop-the-madness/#comment-64748 Dov Blair Epstein Mon, 12 Nov 2012 07:20:52 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=77574#comment-64748 My oldest son is engaged to be married, and so at the wedding, I'm inviting all the hot women to sit next to me…if my wife lets. On the other hand, what do you care if Rabbis make this demand…unless it's adhered by public institutions against the will of the public, then there IS nothing to worry. And on the other hand, if people WANT to adhere to it, then there's no complaint either. maybe , in their deepest desires, they want to move to the right. Sounds like a real desire to just bellyache. I never suffered once from not sitting next to women, or my wife, at events. And if BAr Ilan University wants to move to the right….it's their perogative, they own the store.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/stop-the-madness/#comment-64622 Barry Miller Sun, 11 Nov 2012 21:13:13 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=77574#comment-64622 Intolerance is intolerable! Extremism is dangerous. You can do as you feel fit, just don't impose it on others!

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/stop-the-madness/#comment-64596 Jeffrey Woolf Sun, 11 Nov 2012 19:53:54 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=77574#comment-64596 I think you're right.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/stop-the-madness/#comment-64594 Ran Zev Schijanovich Sun, 11 Nov 2012 19:31:34 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=77574#comment-64594 Yes, the progressively increasing obsession with "modesty" in widening elements of the orthodox world is saddening, frustrating and unfortunately sometimes infuriating. It has caused me (a ba'al tshuva of sorts) to distance myself from that world. Perhaps it is a natural reaction to the other side of the coin, of the increased and exagerated sexual liberality (including style of dress) in the modern secular world, which has also pushed the envelope too far in my view.

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