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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (1300)	12/27/1999 12:29:00 PM
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Hose Job....... Last updated: Monday - 11:53 12/27/99, EST Black Silk Stockings Raise Religious Ire JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Ultra-Orthodox Jews forced the removal Sunday of 500 bus-stop billboards they deemed obscene for featuring a blonde Israeli fashion tycoon in a mini-skirt modeling her brand of black silk stockings. ``I am angry,' said businesswoman and former model Pnina Rosenblum. ``It's not provocative at all. On the contrary, I took the least provocative photo I had.' Rosenblum, a failed parliament candidate this year, said Israel was going the way of the late Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran in bowing to fundamentalist notions of modesty. Zeev Abramson, general manager of Poster Media Israel Ltd, said the ultra-Orthodox ``National Council to Prevent Obscene and Abominable Advertising in the Holy Land' forced his company to remove the 500 outdoor advertisements. He said ultra-Orthodox rabbis had forced the issue, threatening to get giant food companies to stop advertising with Poster Media or risk losing religious certification that their products meet Jewish dietary laws. Abramson bowed to pressure because of what he called a responsibility to his employees and shareholders but added he backed Rosenblum. ``They are using a tactic which is in my opinion against the law,' he said. Israel's non-religious majority complains that politically powerful ultra-Orthodox rabbis and politicians impose constraints on the people, regulating their lifestyles from cradle to grave and imposing public religious observances.