Haredim and burqas

December 6, 2007

Via Holly at Feministe, I find out that a number of women in Israel from the ultra-Orthodox Jewish movement known as haredim have adopted hijabs and burqas as part of the modest dress code. Unfortunately I can’t seem to find an English version of the whole Haaretz article — the blog posts cite or link the Hebrew article, and Holly links to partial translations, but I can’t seem to find a whole translation. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

–IP


Don’t mind the hairy feminist in the corner…

October 12, 2007

…She doesn’t pretend to have a sense of humour.

But why is it that the, even in seemingly intelligent considerate adult men, the word “tits” brings out complete childishness?

–IP