London – Posters in the Stamford Hill section of London telling women to walk on one side of the road have been removed after complaints surfaced.
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The London Evening Standard (http://bit.ly/1p3U439) reports the signs were written in both English and Yiddish, and read: “Women should please walk along this side of the road only.”
The Shomrim in the area – Jewish volunteers who support local police – said they were put up by an Orthodox Jewish group for a religious parade.
Superintendent Andy Walker of Hackney police said officers spoke to organizers of the parade about the “potential misinterpretation” of the signs and they were removed.
Walker added that organizers stated next year the signs will only be written in Hebrew and will be removed immediately following the parade.
More than 20,000 Orthodox Jews live in the area where the signs were hung.
Information taken from The London Evening Standard
Turning in new square eh??
The poster is NOT in Hebrew and English ,the poster is in Yedish and English.
I remember the first time I went to New Square. The separate side of the street signs were in Yiddish only and I had no idea what they said. So I walked on the wrong side. My friends there laughed.
A bunch of screwballs. Trying to hijack the Jewish religion . No different than the radical Muslims
The charedi do these dumb things and then expect secular Jews and Zionists to defend them.
When will the stupidity stop – is it the chumrah of the week ?
Morons
If you’re a man and you can’t walk on a public street or ride on the Monsey bus for an hour without fantasizing about every woman you see, YOU are the problem, NOT THE WOMAN, and YOU should get serious help.
Stop forcing your warped views on everyone else.
No wonder there is so much anti-Semitism these days. We look like barbarians and show the world how we scorn our beautiful women.
What parade is there in Tishrei? It’s only an excuse.
what a chilul hashem!!! whats the point? primitive…
Are they on opposite sides than in the US just traffic is different?
It’s a narrow sidewalk and it was meant for a crowd, still, I can see where some may take offense. I don’t think offense was intended. Did the other side of the street say the same thing for men????
Have a wonderful Shabbos everyone, and a sweet New Year.
Did anybody actually read this article? Most commentators here seem to have missed some points.
It was hung up specifically for an event. A parade, usually with large crowds, where Ultra-Orthodox Jews try to avoid mingling with the opposite gender..
So the organizers basically set up “Men/Women” signs for direction.
It wasn’t meant for the general public.
(They also made sure to write “Please” in both languages.)
The entire event was probably just an hour or 2.
The only mistake was that nobody bothered to remove the signs after the event was finished.
They clearly said (in this article) that they will make sure to remove these signs in the future right after the parade is over!
Golly, you would think people would be a tad less critical right before Rosh-Hashonah……
chasidishe people are generally careful about men and women mixing or even walking between 2 members of the opposite sex-that’s a halacha btw. if the signs are only put up for the parade, which is for these type of people,what’s the harm? the signs should only be in yiddish though.
Use brains.
Next time say
“Men shouldn’t walk on this side”.
I’m still waiting for the signs directed at men.
“Men should walk on this side”
Golly, you would think people would be a tad less critical right before Rosh-Hashonah……
Normal people like you would think that, but these crazies with nothing better to do than rant…no. If they don’t have anything to criticize they aren’t living. It’s sad.
The signs were only meant for a hachnosas torah, all they did wrong was not putting this fact on the poster and not removing them immediately.
In Manchester they just put up plain paper saying נשים or אנשים.
If you look closely you can see the logo of the Hachnusas Sefer Torah on the sign. It was only intended for that parade.
While it is very commendable that so many here wish to be דן לכף זכות, there was a very firm obligation on the part of the organizers of the הכנסת ס”ת to have those signs removed directly after the event, something with which they later agreed. After all, without a specific public event taking place, those signs could be very easily misconstrued as offensive to individuals, as can be seen by the plethora of complaining posters on this thread.
It doesn’t matter if the posters were up for 2 hours or 2 days! If it’s against the law, it shouldn’t be done.
Can u say segregation?