New York City suing Orthodox Jewish store owners for banning immodest women
Sign ordering immodest women to stay out of the store |
By: Shifra Unger
Several ultra-Orthodox Jewish business owners in New York were slammed with a lawsuit after preventing immodest women from entering their stores, according to court proceedings in New York.
The city of New York has sued seven Hasidic owned businesses that require customers to dress modestly. The Jewish business owners hung up signs outside their stores that tells customers that they cannot wear shorts, sleeveless shirts or low cut tops which show cleavage, inside the store.
Representatives of the City Commission of Human Rights said that the signs were problematic because they were an attempt to force Hasidic religious beliefs onto others.
The businesses that were sued are all located in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York, where much of the population is Hasidic. Similar signs are also common in the Upstate New York city of Kiryas Joel.
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