Unlike the Dhimmi politicians and Muslim adulating Leftist Jews, Bardot raised her voice against Islamic barbarism in France just like her deceased soul mate, Oriana Fallaci in Italy. She was sentenced by the French court several times for "offending" Islam. This aging lady has far more temerity, moral fortitude than the entire "Elite" Academia and "intellectual classes" that runs the world and the media. These despicable, obsequious "Elite" doesn't stop genuflecting at their Muslim overlord like Bloomberg in N.Y.C. and kissing up the bloody hand of the Saudi king like the schawartze Messiah.

With the heat in this country, we don't need fur products, anyway. Easy for us to ban it. Bring on, though, the diamonds.

First, ban the import of fur...and then ban the wearing of those cringe-inducing shtreimels. No animal deserves to lose its life so that religious fanatics can wear fur hats in the Middle East in the 95 degree heat.

Thank g-d for young women for if they were born the way Brigitte looks today, there wouldnt be future generations. Woof Woof

Garden of Eden after sinning. Wearing fur must be all right or the Lord would not have provided fur garments for them to replace the fig leaves they put on themselves.

in her quests. Kol hakovod ! As for #4 Al - she was a beautiful young girl and is a very good lookiing older gal. Mal asot - aging gets the best of us.

THEY ARE FANATICS BECAUSE THEY ARE WEARING TRADITIONAL DRESS? I THOUGHT YOU WERE PRO-ISRAEL? IF YOU ARE PRO-ISRAEL, THEN YOU SHOULD BE PRO-JEW. IF YOU ARE PRO-JEW, THEN YOU OUGHT NOT BLAST AN ENTIRE SECT OF CHASIDIM FOR THEIR TRADITIONAL DRESS. IF YOU ARE TRYING TO MAKE A POINT ABOUT THE ANIMAL FUR, THAT'S ONE THING, BUT TO TAKE IT TO THE LEVEL OF NAME-CALLIING IS ANOTHER. PERHAPS, YOU COULD FATHOM THIS, THAT THERE MAY BE AT LEAST SOME AMONG ALL THESE STREIMEL WEARERS WHO ARE NOT FANATICS, BUT JUST TRYING TO LIVE THEIR LIVES. WITH FRIENDS LIKE NYC GIRL, WE DON'T NEED ENEMIES.

She is not bad looking. It's called living~ she is over seventy years old. What, do you expect her to look like she did in 1958? I'm sure you're not fairing so well over the years either pal. Matter of fact, I think she looks pretty darn good for her age and her beauty now is more than skin deep, it's the woman she's become over the years. She is a real woman and weak men like you just feel threatened by them.

she got good taste, more power to you.

save the innocent cotton plant! make wearing fabric illegal! People can wear plastic trash-bags! "only" secular fanatics wear plants. Let plants live!

I think you'll find the ones who wear shtreimels are generally among the more extreme groups...including many who are anti-Zionist. But that aside, what makes what they wear the traditional dress for ultra-Orthodox Jews? Because they've decided to adopt the dress of Polish noblemen from centuries ago? That isn't particularly Jewish? Why not wear the caftans that were worn by Jews in biblical times as traditional Mizrahi Jews do? That would seem to make a lot more sense...aside from being much more practical than dressing in black from head to toe and wearing dead animals on your head in such a hot climate. But, in answer to your question, I definitely am pro-Israel. But I'm pro the Israelis who serve in the IDF, who work hard and pay taxes and don't try to ram their religion down the throats of the overwhelmingly secular population of Israel by rioting, becoming violent and generally causing all kinds of mayhem. And, unfortunately, I think you'll find that many (although not necessarily all) of those who wear the shtreimel fall into that category.

Jews think they are commanded by Hashem to wear a dead animal on their head. I can just hear Hashem now, "NO, I did not tell you to replace the hair on your bald head with a dead animal. Have you no common sense at all?"

THAT'S A VERY OLD AND TIRED ARGUMENT, THAT CAFTANS SHOULD BE THE TRADITIONAL DRESS. BUT IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO OPEN IT UP, FINE. THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF DRESS, DEPENDING ON WHICH PART OF THE DIASPORA ONE CAME FROM. IF ONE HAILS FROM YEMEN, USUALLY A WIDE RANGE OF DIFFERENT CAFTANS, AS WELL AS OTHER TYPES OF DRESS, WERE WORN. MOST JEWS IN EASTERN EUROPE DID WEAR THE LONG COATS, STREIMEL, ETC. NOT JUST AS A FAD THAT STARTED 200+ YEARS AGO, BUT ALSO AS PART OF A WARDROBE OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN A VERY COLD CLIMATE. SOMETIMES, ADJUSTMENTS TEND TO TAKE THE FORM OF MINHAGIM. SOME PEOPLE MAY TAKE OFFENSE TO IT, BUT OTHERS ARE MORE TOLERANT ABOUT DIVERSITY. UNFORTUNATELY, DIVERSITY THESE DAYS SEEMS TO BE ACCEPTED MORE ON THE OUTSIDE THAN FROM WITHIN JUDAISM. AS FOR YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT THE IDF AND TAX PAYERS, YOU ARE MORE THAN WELCOME TO COME HERE, PAY TAXES TO THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT AND TO SERVE IN THE ISRAELI ARMY. I DO NOT KNOW WHERE YOU GET YOUR STATISTICS FROM, BUT I AM PRETTY SURE THAT YOUR GUESSTIMATES AS TO HOW MANY PEOPLE WEARING THE STREIMEL FALL INTO THE CATEGORY OF FANATICS, ETC ARE FANTASY AT BEST. TRY MOVING HERE, LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE PEOPLE BY LIVING AMONGST THEM AND THEN JUDGE.

IN CASE IT WASN'T ALREADY OBVIOUS.

Long ago in Eastern Europe, some dead animals (maybe squirrels?) were put on the head of Jews to ridicule them and later, they continued the "fashion" to their own liking, thus giving birth to the shtreimels. Miss Bardot who still looks great for her age (you're just jealous!) is right to fight for the rights of animals. We have great technology out-there--- if you really must wear fur --- to make fake fur that looks just like the real thing, so why kill animals needlessly? Funny how only man kills for sport rather than for food except for maybe another animal out there that I forgot the species (I think some kind of dog)

Israel doesn't need any support from this old witch who is close now to the most antisemite and xenophobe mouvement, i.e. Front national.

Why don't we just make yet another great law and not enforce it adding to the existing culture of lawlessness? Fantastic!! Let's pander to another Charedi minority so they can wear silly 18th century fur hats in the stifling August heat. RIDICULOUS!!!!!

Today there is a variety of materials to choose from to clothe yourselves - from cotton to synthetics. There is no reason for torturing animals so that you can feel warm or look rich.

In US we hunt rabbits for food, coyote because they kill our animakls and attack our children, bear becuase they ruin o rbeehives and destroy cabins, deer becuase they are food and do immense car and crop damage, beavers because they flood fields and ruin streams, muskrats because they can destroy berms and dikes arounf fields, racoon, because they transmit rabies. Fur is natural, and does not use oil. Good fur can last a lifetime. Who cares here what some Euro-Trash antisemite thinks. Israel...do not give up your freedom of choice. Funny, we (not us) abort children at will, but cannnot wear a rabbit fur hat? Get real.

and go outside in a cotton coat with bubble wrap and we'll see if you survive. Minks, Raccoons, Seals survive frozen Canada because they have great fur. G-d created them..Animals are here to serve man. If you dont agree, then I suggest you refuse any oncology drugs should you get cancer. As for the enviro terrorist quacks they have an agenda that is not only anti environment, but at the same time anti-semitic as well. They are in the forefront of every anti-Israel group out there. For all you Bambi lovers out there who wouldnt know a deer from a moose or an elk, culling a popualtion of wild animals is environmently friendly. Thanks to the fact that hunting is not PC (I am a hunter) people in Canada get killed all the time on the highways when they run into moose or deer. If you think you can survive running into a moose, its like driving into a cement wall, only the moose ends up in your lap and your head ends up in Chicago. As for Brigitte, she is an old hag who lost her beaurty...Today she is a myskait with no grace whatsoever.

a) In a democracy (the only one in the region) the majority of the people want a ban on fur. b) Animals specifically grown for their fur are not the same as those which are eaten or hunted for other reasons. c) I am not anti meat, but it is the individual's chocie what s/he eats. d) The Hassidic "shtreimel" hat has nothing to do with the Torah, and is an alien custom, hukkat hagoy. The Cossacks who murdered hundreds of thousands of Jews, and raped many more , imposed this from of dress on the Jews of that area. For them to continue dressing like that is an abomination. However, to spend $4000 per shtreimel, when they could feed their family for that kind of money, is disgusting.

When we hunt for food, to prevent damage, stop diseases, why waste a good fur? That is NOT conservation. Waste not, want not. Much fur comes from meat animals, like rabbit, racoon, opossum, deer, caribou, seal (for some indiginous people). Not all fur is farm-raised. Still, fur bearers raised for fur never would have lived in the first place if not for fur. Same for meat. Is it better to have lived and died than to never have lived at all? Is that why people abort children, because they "might" have a rough life. Explains a lot, this sanctimonious, controlling attitude.

You poor fellow, you must be living in a cave, or in a shack in the middle of nowhere, thousands of kilometers from civilization. Of course you need furs to cover yourself if you've not familiar with those state of the art parkas and snowsuits that even the most remote clothing stores stock and sell for a few bucks. Now, here is a suggestion Al: walk, sled, ride your horse to the nearest town and get yourself some synthetic winter clothes and stop killing animals to steal their fur. You're doing your fellow Canadians a disservice by portraying all Canucks as primitive guys dressed in furs. Believe me, readers, Canadians are a lot more sophisticated than Al out there in the boondocks. Oh, and by the way, motorists get killed when striking moose and deer not because of anti-hunting laws but because they are intruding into their habitat. It's their country they are trespassing and occupying. Don't blame the animals! What you wrote about Brigitte says more about you than about her. It shows you are not and probably have never been a gentleman, not even in your younger years. Look at yourself in the mirror, pal, before you attack a lady. You'd be lucky if she even looked at you.

I was born and raised in Canada as were both my parents and all 4 of my grandparents. So although I am now a proud Israeli I still am a Canadian citizen. It makes no sense what you are saying when you write about road accidents with deer and moose. Of course all of Canada including Toronto was once the habitat of deer and moose. Yet now its 2010 and over 30 million people live in Canada. I had the misfortune of hitting a deer(thank G-d not a moose). My car was badly damaged and I was fortunate to escape serious injury. There is nothing wrong with controling the number of deer and moose if there is a problem with over population.

Ok , let me get this straight. You move into animal territory. You hit an animal with your motor vehicle. Then you say, darn, I should have shot that moose or deer when I had the chance. Judah, we are importing hundreds of thousands of people into this country. This ain't natural growth, my friend. We are bringing them in and they are having lots of babies. Then they need housing, social services. Governments clear the forests, sell the trees to give jobs to underachievers and to pay for social services with the forest companies' stumpage fees. Houses are built. Lots of houses where the forests used to be. The bears, moose, deer, cougars and other animals have difficulty finding their usual food. They encounter humans instead. Humans freak out. Humans shoot the beasts. And you think that I don't make sense? We can't expand forever at the expense of nature and wildlife. Animals do have rights too. They were were first.

I hit the deer near Fort Erie,Ontario 7 years ago. White men have lived in the Fort Erie area for hundreds of years. Before that native Indians lived in the Fort Erie area for a couple of thousand years. At the time I hit the deer there was an overpopulation of deer which has now been controlled. On your other subject I agree that Canada is allowing in too many immigrants yet my reasons for objecting are probally much different than yours.

I think we share the same objections to immigration. It's too bad that the left wing has monopolized animal rights. Some right wing fanatics like myself are vegetarians and love all animals. After I sent my last TB to you, it occurred to me that you have a much more serious problem with traffic "accidents" in Israel. Here it's a rare moose that meets your car. In Israel it's too often one of those big trucks whose driver sees a car full of kids and oops! the steering wheel just turns without him even noticing and his truck hits the car killing everyone. Ooops, indeed, and the courts believe those truck drivers every time. So Judah, I wouldn't shoot moose or deer, as I said. When you crash against them, those are true accidents.

downing a deer. Of course being the feel good 'I love everyone... kool aid drinker' that you are I dont expect you ever would or could. And just to set the record straight there are tons of good looking women hunting each year here in Canada. As a matter of fact when I was in class getting my Quebec Hunting License the women were the majority. What Judah says is right, you havent got a clue. I suggest you contine living in Cabbage town while cozing up to your loving new Muslim friends. Like most Jews in Toronto, you'll continue bitching 24/7 about real estate prices and the fact that its difficult to get someone to clean your toilet. Nuff said.

As much as I am against the fur trade, I am astonished that any Israeli would allow themselves to be influenced by a right wing fascist-leaning has been celebrity who is an ardent supporter of the likes of France's Le Pen. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/may/15/france.davidhearst

Simply an example of how Europeans are slowly, steadily moving to the Right after decades of having "progressive" philosophy & agenda shoved down their throats. Now LePen is a piece of work, to be sure, but his ranks & influence will only grow as Europeans become ever more aware of how their countries & reality are being warped and transformed in the name of the dubious, questionable ideals of the far Left. Shift from one extreme to another extreme.