Comments on: Israel Doesn’t Need Religious Police http://www.frumforum.com/israel-doesnt-need-religious-police Building a conservatism that can win again Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:05:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: YMedad http://www.frumforum.com/israel-doesnt-need-religious-police/comment-page-1#comment-73302 YMedad Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:26:42 +0000 http://www.frumforum.com/?p=16395#comment-73302 And yes, the Rambam permits women to wear tzitzit but (a) no bracha and (b) is that a tallit or just tzitzit? And yes, the Rambam permits women to wear tzitzit but (a) no bracha and (b) is that a tallit or just tzitzit?

]]> By: YMedad http://www.frumforum.com/israel-doesnt-need-religious-police/comment-page-1#comment-73300 YMedad Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:17:49 +0000 http://www.frumforum.com/?p=16395#comment-73300 a) this happened at the Kotel, not the Temple Mount. b) I agree with you that in detaining her, the police made a PR error. I guess they should have let her get beat up by fanatical obscurantist Jews. That would have been much better. c) if you are so against this as you wrote: "the authorities have ceded the Temple Mount and its holiness to a group of fundamentalist and exclusionary Jews who increasingly do not share that prophetic and open vision", well then, why not support my rights as a Jew really on the Temple Mount? Is it because fundamentalist exclusionary MUSLIMS are okay to deny Jews rights? a) this happened at the Kotel, not the Temple Mount.
b) I agree with you that in detaining her, the police made a PR error. I guess they should have let her get beat up by fanatical obscurantist Jews. That would have been much better.
c) if you are so against this as you wrote: “the authorities have ceded the Temple Mount and its holiness to a group of fundamentalist and exclusionary Jews who increasingly do not share that prophetic and open vision”, well then, why not support my rights as a Jew really on the Temple Mount? Is it because fundamentalist exclusionary MUSLIMS are okay to deny Jews rights?

]]> By: sinz54 http://www.frumforum.com/israel-doesnt-need-religious-police/comment-page-1#comment-73275 sinz54 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:43:18 +0000 http://www.frumforum.com/?p=16395#comment-73275 This incident illustrates something. Whether it's this Jewish fundamentalism described here, or the Christian fundamentalism in America, or the Muslim fundamentalism that's sweeping the developing world, they all have one thing in common. They don't like women's rights or female equality with men. Indeed, given when these fundamentalisms began (1970s), it's hard to escape the conclusion that all these fundamentalisms arose as a backlash to the feminist drive for total equality of the sexes. This incident illustrates something.

Whether it’s this Jewish fundamentalism described here,
or the Christian fundamentalism in America,
or the Muslim fundamentalism that’s sweeping the developing world,

they all have one thing in common.
They don’t like women’s rights or female equality with men.

Indeed, given when these fundamentalisms began (1970s), it’s hard to escape the conclusion that all these fundamentalisms arose as a backlash to the feminist drive for total equality of the sexes.

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