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GodsBigBlog: Where — American — Jewish Women Must Move Aside for Men

October 29, 2011 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

“Precious Jewish daughter, please move to the side when a man approaches.” So read a number of signs hanging on trees in Williamsburg, a mostly Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn,

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