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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (2683)8/12/2001 4:17:30 PM
From: Thomas M.   of 23908
 
Reading a fluff piece in today's paper about the clash between Brooklyn blacks and Orthodox Jews, I noticed an interesting comment. At a neighborhood meeting held to clear the air between the two groups, black women complained that the Jewish men wouldn't make eye contact or shake hands. A Jewish women came up with this gem as an explanation:

"Often they're praying as they walk down the street; it's not that they don't want to look you in the face. And it's not that they don't want to touch your hand; they won't touch any woman's hand."

LOL! This thread and our society as a whole is teeming with people complaining about women's rights in Saudi Arabia and in the back woods of Utah. I can't recall anyone EVER complaining about these religious freaks, though. One reason: people like Cobie running around furiously trying to deny these customs exist.

Tom
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