Is 'attack' the correct word? It seems hyperbolic to me.

It hurts to hear it, but when you consider the fact that it causes people to swing dead chickens over their heads in the hopes that the chickens will be blamed for their sins, and that rabbis will suck a baby's penis after a bris, well, it has to be faced. Religion is nuts.

Can you give your sources for your "most money spent there is still charedi" ? Official Statistics please .

is a "childish superstition" . It's a quote by Albert Einstein . Do you know who it was ? Jews , Seculars , are here because this country belongs to the Jewish people , historically !

of heradi bashing!!! Come on ladies of the chastity squad, why dont you mind your own business what others do and wear....WE ARE NOT IN IRAN!!!! True what a few here say, you really put folks off and I have to agree regarding the Habadniks, they do not force anything down your throat, so ladies, go home to your household duties, be the good heradi wife and leave others to be good in their own way...dress does not make a good person!!!!

I think it´s more sympathetic women distributing Shabat candles. These Haredi women might have more success trying that.It can be the longest way but it gets in the same place eventually.

They trample all over the Torah like savages and then go boss people around? Horrible people should keep their rat paws off these secular women. I wouldn't blame the secular girl if she hauled off and slapped the old lady in the face for putting her hands on her like that. This is disgusting. I'm religious and would never consider talking to someone like that: I mind my own business because I have enough to work on concerning myself, LIKE EVERYONE ELSE SHOULD BE DOING. Hope I don't run into ANY of these taliban squads, male or female: ZERO TOLERANCE FOR FANATICS! PERIOD!

its time for me to take a stroll in my boxers through the market :)

Sorry #27 but do you live in Jerusalem? There is no way the haredim support Machane Yehuda! They can barely support themselves let alone a market! I am secular and shop there all the time and let me tell you, I will dress however I wish when i go there. What is this, Tehran? Saudi Arabia? Give me a break. Let these women get a job then they can tell me how to dress!

The Modesty/Chastity squads biddies who are so disturbed by the sight of others not wearing clothes to their liking should STOP coming to Mach'ane Yehuda so their eyes won't be offended. Problem solved! This particular haredi insanity is part of a plethora of other forms of haredi misbehaviour in public...these people should realize that non-religious Jews do have the right to dress as they see fit that is legal (according to secular laws) anywhere/anytime. The haredi do NOT have the right to disturb/accost anyone who does not conform to their own views about morality and modesty or about anything that is legal (secular laws). Personally, I don't like at all the outlandish wigs, caftans and fur hats worn in ch'asidc milieus ...that does NOT entitle me to bother those that wear these silly things. The same is true re. what these foolish Modesty Squad women are doing...they are nuisances to their victims and should learn to mind their own business...let them move to Iran if they are that much disturbed.

If the law of the nation protects people to dress as they wish, the religious should obey them. Even if you go back in time to the time of kings, do these people know what would happen if they disobeyed the law? There are laws from God, there are laws that people interpret or make up and say are from God, and there are laws of man. The laws of man are just as holy as the laws of God, they are founded in the laws of God to begin with. How to destroy Israel: make it resemble the Taliban. Then most of the Israelis will leave, tourism will end, investment will end.

If this happened in the film "You don't mess with the Zohan", anyone asking someone to dress a certain way would get a coat hangar up their nose. Similarly, if this happened to Ziva on NCIS, the modesty squad member would get her arms dislocated. Israelis have to live up to the badass reputation they have in the media. If seculars would fight back, and be willing to defend themselves in court, the frummies would back off. No one messes with the seculars. Deep down, the frummies are nothing but cowards.