But Why Her Little Girls?

There has been flack about the 'Taliban-styled' ladies in the ultra-Orthodox sector.

Yesterday, I spotted a mother, two-daughters and an infant in a pushchair.

It took some maneuvering and espionage experience fieldwork, but here are the results:

They were walking along Meah Shearim Street, then turned into the main square area and then made a further turn up in the direction of the Meah Shearim central Yeshivah.

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Not Quite All Black-and-White

I was in the Braslav (Breslov/Bratzlav) bookstore in Meah Shearim (^) today. No men were behind the counter as the Frank family which runs in are quite central to the annual Rosh hashana pilrimage to Umman and so they are already there preparing.

As I came in, I thought I saw two "Taliban women" in the back but it turned out to be a different story entirely.

Here they are leaving:

Photo credit: YMedad

As they left, they asked the girl if she forgave them and she replied in the positive.

So, who were they? What did they purchase?

The were two Russian Orthodox nuns.

And they has purchased a set of the Selichot order of service, the special penitential prayers said just before the High Holiday season until the eve of Yom Kippur.

Oh, and here is the Bet Medrash of Braslav getting reading, hiding the 'tribunes' (*) used by the women to enter the Ezrat Nashim from the outside as the building's internal architecture is all male:

Photos credit


(*)
Tribunes is the term used to describe the stands or bleachers on which the Chasidim stand en masse high up to watch the action, as in this usage:

Hundreds of Hasidim stand on the tribunes and watch the Purim Spiel together with their Rebbe.

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אגודת משך הנחל

רחוב מאה שערים 110

ת.ד. 5719 ירושלים 91056

טלפקס: 02-6273120

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A Book Store Gets Hit

Here's a short video and here's another regarding a war being waged against a Jewish book store in...Meah Shearim. Or HaChayim, formerly Manny's.

I guess those Sikrikim don't like mixed crowds in the aisles.

You'll never know what they're up to...reading.

Well, almost:

ה'סיקריקים' מדברים לראשונה: "אנחנו מתנכלים לספרייה כי הם מוכרים ספרים של ציונים"".



The store sells Zionist literature.

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Sarah Palin Getting Ready for a Visit to Meah Shearim?

I think they call that a newsboy cap (or not).

New Set of Meah She'arim Wall Posters

This past week was quite a violent week:

This summer, radical elements of the ultra-Orthodox community have been demonstrating and rioting against city authorities, welfare officials and the police...

But after a 13-year lull in what local residents call the “Sabbath wars,” another round started one Saturday in June, when City Hall decided to open a parking lot...The protesters called the police “Nazis” and spat at them. Special Force police officers dumped troublemakers into the fragrant rosemary and lavender bushes along the sidewalk. Protesters who tried to block the road were sprayed with pepper gas and carried off in a prison service van...The Eda Haredit has also rallied around one of its members this summer, a mother who was arrested on suspicion of starving her 3-year-old son. Her supporters rioted in ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods and set fire to a local welfare office where she had met with social workers before being detained. Fierce riots broke out on Sunday night after the police entered a central ultra-Orthodox neighborhood to remove the body of a murder victim from a hostel. The riot seemed to have more to do with a general hatred of the police than the killing itself, which did not even involve a member of the ultra-Orthodox community. For the first time, the police used tear gas and stun grenades and fired in the air to disperse the crowds.

The Eda Haredit called the police “murderers,” saying later in a poster that a young yeshiva student had been run over and badly wounded by a vehicle of the “Zionist Gestapo” force.

Violence then broke out again on Tuesday night, when a mob attacked a taxi driven by an Arab driver in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood. The driver escaped, though the car was battered.

The "literature" -



a) "Murderers! Second attempt at murder by the commanders of the Zionist Gestapo"



b) "Get ready! The Haredi Judaism the world over is uniting to rage the universe"


c) "Traitors shall be vilified" "The kowtowing institutions...shall fear the day of judgment"


d) "The torture is at its height"

e) Pray for Yenta (the mother accused to harming her children) and Yisrael Asher (who has a trial date)


f) "In your blood you shall live"


g) "Our obligation to the Shabbat demonstrators"

Election Posters

Famous Beni Albaz (father of...) utilizes the (in)famous "He is Innocent" cry of Aryeh Der'i claim to promote Arkady Gaidamak:



I went all along Meah She'arim Street and nary an election poster but rather posters warning the residents not to vote:

No More MP4 - in Meah She'arim

Another wall poster post:-