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Haredi rabbis rank airlines' modesty
Neta Sela
Published: 12.07.08, 16:19
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1. Haredi Rabbi's rank airlines modesty
millicent ,   Israel   (07.12.08)
Here's an idea why not charter a seperate plane for Haredim wishing to fly modestly during certain times of the year.That way they could travel as mosestly as they want, while not being offended by secular passengers and allowing us to enjoy our inflight movies and immodest dress!
2. LET THEM WALK OR SWIM! IDIOTS!
The Doc ,   Haifa, Israel   (07.12.08)
3. Fly to Ukraine ,
Charles ,   Petach Tikva   (07.12.08)
with a one way ticket , we don't need you here if you can't adapt to the 21th century .
4. Rabbi Yosef needs to take off his rose color glasses and
really see things ,   clearly.Maurie,   (07.12.08)
5. Dear Haredim
Sagi ,   Israel   (07.12.08)
Please go back to the small towns and villages of Poland were all this foolish nonsense started. Your mannerisms and behaviour, your practices and your garb have nothing whatsoever to do with Judaism, ancient or modern, nothing to do with our festivals or our tradition and heritage. Please leave us alone and stop trying to rule our lives.
6. WHO CARES??
jewish canadian ,   toronto   (07.12.08)
These people are medieval barbarians.Their rants apply only to the cultists who follow them.
7. BS
David Star   (07.12.08)
I like immodest airlines... Those mens in black are so boring. We don't want them to impose their medieval rules on us. We are not interested to become a jewish Iran.
8. Sagi, Number 5, is absolutely right
SERGIO ,   Qiryat Arba   (07.12.08)
9. Let them have their own kosher airline
Arielush ,   Ramat Ha Golan   (07.12.08)
On my last trip to the states, My husband and I shared a row with a Haredi Jew. Never again! He had the window seat. To be polite my husband occupied the middle seat. Throughout the flight his friends leaned over our row talking to him. We offered to let him have the aisle. No he had to have the window. His friends asked us to turn off the movies because they offended their modesty. However, they offended my sense of space by leaning over my seat. Next time I fly I'll fly an immodest airline.
10. Yawn....
Andy ,   ramat hasharon   (07.12.08)
11. Hareidi and films - just close your eyes...
Mary ,   Ashkelon Israel   (07.12.08)
and go to sleep. I do - not because I'm religious, but because these films are the biggest rubbish - and what a good opportunity to have a nice long snooze!! Swithch off for G-ds sake and leave your prejudices at home.
12. haredi airlines
elliot ,   point roberts,wa   (07.12.08)
isn't observance an individual respnsibility?-why not learn to sleep on planes?--now if the facilities are unsanitary that is different...also how about staying in israel and not flying to some countries because of corruption --that would actually say something more meaningful to me.
13. # 9 You think your story is bad ?
Sagi ,   Israel   (07.12.08)
Read this one. I sat beside a bearded gentleman who had prepared himself well in advance for the "not kosher enough food" on EL AL. When meal time came he refused to accept the tray and proceeded to take a chicken leg wrapped in brown paper from his inside jacket pocket. When he finished nibbling on it he stuck the bone wrapped in the brown paper in the pouch on the back of the seat. I do not fly on EL AL since that experience, but who cares, EL AL pamper to them not to us.
14. Good News
jerry ,   Eilat   (07.12.08)
Now I know which airlines I am going to take--those on the forbidden list. If the Charadim can't keep themselves from looking at a movie screen when there are scenes that are sexually enticing then they have a problem. People with a normal sex drive can manage to read a book or two on every flight, without being religious and never look at the screen. These fellows are OVERSEXED!
15. If they can't deal with immodesty
NYC Girl   (07.12.08)
It's a good thing the Haredim don't venture into some of those neighborhoods, not just in Tel Aviv, but in a quiet suburb of Haifa, that I won't identify, where the newsstands sell magazines out in the open that are so pornographic you couldn't get away with doing that in NYC any longer. I really don't think Israel is the place for these people. Maybe Monsey, New York would be a better choice.
16. Haredi rabbis rank airlines' modesty
Latrina Goldfarb ,   Toronto, Canada   (07.12.08)
I do the same thing when there's a bad movie on my flight that I do when I'm in shul. I close my eyes, drop my head back, and meditate until the movie or the service is over.
17. THE GREATEST IMMODESTY.................
Devorah Stein ,   Hertziliya   (07.12.08)
IS IN THE FACT THAT YNET SELECTIVELY PUBLISHES ANTI RELIGIOUS COMMENTS ! OUT OF A HUNDRED COMMENTS, HOW MANY DID YNET PUBLISH ? This is a question that will no sooner be published than, the well being of Hannah Sofer ! this is an incendiary instigation to divide us as jews ! It is a blatent act of civil/social sedition ! Since there's nothing in the Israel penal code to preclude such corruption it will continue with impunity !
18. I pity those who need laws to restrain own sexual desires!
The Doc ,   Haifa, Israel   (07.12.08)
19. and another one..................
d ,   centre   (07.12.08)
here's another one...I had a haredi family sit behind me on an el al flight, they smelt. The children had no manners. The father put his hatbox on the empty chair next to ME and refused to move it so that I could take advantage of the empty seat. (slightly more deserving than a hat box). Their arrogance disgusts me.
20. Haredi Rabbis censure Airlines
Eli ,   Israel   (07.12.08)
These lunatic fringe bigots are afraid of sex and other normal forms of relationships. Who cares what they try and censor and what they think. They ought to wear blinders. Their whole attitude to social relationships is sick!
21. Ynet anti religious?
Eli ,   Israel   (07.12.08)
Lady, who died and left you boss? What thinks you and your lunatic fringe rabbis have any right to speak for Jews? Your putative brand of Judaism is bringing about a sick society of sexually repressed humans. Your obsession with 'modesty' is signs of deep mental disturbances; your repression of women and their acceptance of it is odious in the extreme. Your attempt to force it on us is equally odious.
22. Complaints
Ben ,   Monroe, USA   (07.12.08)
Suggest the herediim who find films offensive not turn on the TV on whatever airlines they ride on. This way they may be happy and not try to decide for the majority of Jewry what should be shown.
23. # 17
Ben ,   Monroe, USA   (07.12.08)
typical of the herediim mindset. do it my way or else. sickening to the nth degree.
24. Did our tax shekels pay for the research and advert?
(07.12.08)
If so I want to start funding on other more valuable projects!
25. films for the religious
fad ,   israel   (07.13.08)
if u do not like the movies on baord STOP flying. you only dirty up the entire aircraft with all your nonsence and glatt kosher food and prayers.
26. There is another way - move to Afghanistan
Simon ,   TA the free city   (07.13.08)
Yep that would be the best for everyone. If these people cant even board an aircraft sit down and behave like normal human beings and then insist on inflicting their lifestyle on the rest of us then they shouldn't travel . It is not uncommon for charadeem to start riots on planes endangering the life of not only other passengers but also the crew.
27. Why is this news?
OG ,   Tel Aviv   (07.13.08)
28. Stupid commentary
Zion   (07.13.08)
Comments made by so-called Jews during Shabbat are awful, this ranking list was aimed at the religious community, in religious newspapers, it wasn't forced on you and Yedioth Ahronoth doesn't even need to publish it to its secular readers. Everybody makes lists, from cosmetic lists in women magazines to programs you hate on television.
29. just be glad you get there safely
hanina   (07.13.08)
be a good sport don't buy the earphones, and don't watch the tv
30. Stupid Commentary
Ben ,   Monroe, USA   (07.14.08)
Yes Zion, your commentary certainly fits your own description. Suggest you walk, not fly. That way you are not exposed to any movies which seem to upset your oh so delicate system.
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