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The Haredi are sects of Orthodox Judaism that reject modern secular culture for them nudity is a big no-no. So much so that an offer of a magnificent piece of art was treated with horror and rejected.
A replica of Rodin's 'Le Penseur' (The Thinker) was being offered to the city of Jerusalem by the Rodin Museum by the offer has been declined by the city because of the fierce opposition of the Haredi. Deputy Mayor Shlomi Atias, a Haredi himself, says
We cannot allow the placement of such a sculpture in a city like Jerusalem. If he was wearing a bathing suit, then maybe it would have passed, but he is totally naked.
The Green Man presumes that is a neck-to-knee type bathing suit he is referring to.
It seems to The Green Man that narrow minded, ultra-conservative attitudes such as these form part of the complex web of violence and death that characterises this Arab/Isreali conflict.
(via Art Daily)
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or read the most recent entries here.First, one of the main reasons the statue is rejected was not nudity, but rather the fact that Jews are not allowed to gaze at, own, or be involved with statues of human beings, among other things. Furthermore, the cause of the conflict between Arabs and Jews in Israel is antisemitism/Jew hatred. If the Jews put down their weapons today there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs put down their weapons there would be peace. Indeed, there is nothing dangerouns about Charedi Judaism in this respect any more so than Amish people in the U.S.A are the cause of the American Arab/Muslim conflict (the same terrorists who target Israel also target the U.S.A.)
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