From: http://www.thejc.com
Strictly Orthodox rabbis in London have set up a “modesty" hotline to report any breaches of decency among the ranks of the community.
Notices have gone up in synagogues in Yiddish and English advertising a mobile number on behalf of the new Va’ad L’Toihar Hamachneh, Committee for the Purity of the Camp.
Locals can report any slip in standards of modest dress, or poretz geder, a breach in the barriers of decency – for example, inappropriate mingling of the sexes.
A spokesman for the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations said that the committee was not a UOHC initiative as such, but had been launched by a number of its rabbis in response to “public demand”.
But he made clear that there would not be any “modesty patrols”, as there were in Israel, which try to enforce dress standards on the streets.
The notice says that calls will be treated confidentially and the committee will "follow up and will investigate and do its best to solve the problem, according to guidance of the rabbis".
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As posted below, so good it had to be repeated:
ReplyDelete"I know someone who deserves to be reported. There has been a severe deterioration in modesty standards in his office where dozens of women have been touched in inappropriate ways. Definitely deserves reporting on....
.... only problem is that he might pick up the phone"
The Union have very good experience with these things.
ReplyDeleteA few recent quotes
'No Police'
'I am innocent'