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Israeli religious-law arrests

Banbh · 2013-02-11 17:02:04

Israeli police arrest women for wearing male-style prayer shawls http://www.jpost.com/VideoArticles/Video/Article.aspx?id=302844 It appears that the women are being detained for questioning.

11-02-2013 05:02PM

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Israeli police arrest women for wearing male-style prayer shawls

http://www.jpost.com/VideoArticles/Video/Article.aspx?id=302844

Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby confirmed that the women were detained for wearing tallitot, especially what police refer to as "male style" tallitot. Police allow women to wear the colorful tallitot around the shoulders which police refer to as "female tallitot" as opposed to the "male tallitot" which are blue and white or black and white and worn folded across he shoulders. “The moment they put on the other [male] tallit, it’s problematic," Ben-Ruby said

It appears that the women are being detained for questioning.

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