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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/A_female_member_of_the_Haredi_burqa_sect_in_Mea_Shearim.jpg/375px-A_female_member_of_the_Haredi_burqa_sect_in_Mea_Shearim.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/A_female_member_of_the_Haredi_burqa_sect_in_Mea_Shearim.jpg/500px-A_female_member_of_the_Haredi_burqa_sect_in_Mea_Shearim.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1130" data-file-height="1809" /></a><figcaption>Woman of the Haredi burqa sect in <a href="/wiki/Mea_Shearim" title="Mea Shearim">Mea Shearim</a>, a Jewish neighbourhood in <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>, 2012</figcaption></figure> <p>The "<b>Haredi burqa sect</b>" (<a href="/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a>: <span lang="he" dir="rtl">נשות השָאלִים</span> <span title="Hebrew-language romanization"><i lang="he-Latn">Neshót haShalím</i></span>, <abbr style="font-size:85%" title="literal translation">lit.</abbr><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">shawl-wearing women</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>) is a community of <a href="/wiki/Haredi_Judaism" title="Haredi Judaism">Haredi Jews</a> that ordains the full covering of a woman's entire body and face, including her eyes, for the preservation of modesty (<span title="Hebrew-language romanization"><i lang="he-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Tzniut" title="Tzniut">tzniut</a></i></span>) in public. In effect, the community asserts that a Jewish woman must not expose her bare skin to anyone but her husband and immediate family. The garment in question, known as a <span title="Hebrew-language romanization"><i lang="he-Latn">shal</i></span> (<span title="Hebrew-language text"><span lang="he" dir="rtl">שָאל</span></span>, <abbr style="font-size:85%" title="literal translation">lit.</abbr><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">shawl</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>), is also referred to as a <span title="Yiddish-language romanization"><i lang="yi-Latn">frumka</i></span>—a portmanteau of the <a href="/wiki/Yiddish" title="Yiddish">Yiddish</a>-language word <span title="Yiddish-language romanization"><i lang="yi-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Frum" title="Frum">frum</a></i></span> and the <a href="/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a>-language word <span title="Arabic-language romanization"><i lang="ar-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Burqa" title="Burqa">burqa</a></i></span>. The Haredi burqa sect, with an estimated population of several hundred people as of 2011<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Haredi_burqa_sect&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, is primarily concentrated in <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a>, and particularly in the Israeli city of <a href="/wiki/Beit_Shemesh" title="Beit Shemesh">Beit Shemesh</a>. These <span title="Hebrew-language romanization"><i lang="he-Latn">Haredim</i></span> rarely leave their homes; the married women who do come out in public are accompanied by their daughters, who also don long robes. </p><p>In both Israel and the <a href="/wiki/Jewish_diaspora" title="Jewish diaspora">Jewish diaspora</a>, the Haredi burqa sect is controversial, even among the broader Haredi community itself. Several notable Haredi religious organizations, including the <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>-based <a href="/wiki/Edah_HaChareidis" title="Edah HaChareidis">Edah HaChareidis</a>, have issued strong and vocal statements condemning the burqa sect's radical tenets with regard to women's clothing. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Haredi_burqa_sect&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <span title="Yiddish-language romanization"><i lang="yi-Latn">frumka</i></span> as a mode of dress for Haredi women was encouraged by Bruria Keren, an Israeli religious leader who taught a strict (by <a href="/wiki/Orthodox_Judaism" title="Orthodox Judaism">Orthodox</a> standards) interpretation of Jewish scripture for female adherents. Keren, who covers herself in several layers of clothing, claimed that covering women was originally a Jewish tradition, and that she had seen a 400-year-old picture of Jewish women covered from head to toe.<sup id="cite_ref-npr_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-npr-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are also <a href="/wiki/Sephardic" class="mw-redirect" title="Sephardic">Sephardic</a> women who claim that their mothers covered their bodies entirely, so that their figures could not be discerned. One sect member is reported to have explained that she was "following these rules of modesty to save men from themselves. A man who sees a woman's body parts is sexually aroused, and this might cause him to commit sin. Even if he doesn't actually sin physically, his impure thoughts are sin in themselves." The religious group, which was estimated to number around 100 in 2008 and may have grown to several hundred as of 2021<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Haredi_burqa_sect&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>,<sup id="cite_ref-Asianews_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Asianews-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is concentrated in <a href="/wiki/Beit_Shemesh" title="Beit Shemesh">Beit Shemesh</a>, but also has followers in <a href="/wiki/Safed" title="Safed">Safed</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>. The majority of the women have secular backgrounds.<sup id="cite_ref-novick_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-novick-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-JP96228_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JP96228-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Child_abuse_allegations">Child abuse allegations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Haredi_burqa_sect&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Child abuse allegations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In February 2008, Keren was arrested on charges of severely abusing her children.<sup id="cite_ref-JP96228_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JP96228-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Identified in court as "B.", she was convicted by the Jerusalem District Court in 2009 on three counts of abuse of a minor or helpless person, and 25 counts of assault in aggravated circumstances, and was sentenced to four years in prison. Her husband, identified in court as "M.", was also convicted of 10 counts of assault, and three counts of abuse of a minor or helpless person, and was sentenced to six months in jail.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_practices">Other practices</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Haredi_burqa_sect&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Other practices"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Keren does not speak in front of men, and has taken on various ascetic practices. During her prison term, she was hospitalized several times for malnutrition and other maladies as a result of her unwillingness to eat the food provided.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some members of the group reportedly <a href="/wiki/Vaccine_controversies" class="mw-redirect" title="Vaccine controversies">do not believe in vaccination</a> or modern medicine. On February 8, 2013, one woman's baby allegedly died from untreated flu, with the parents then fleeing from the law. On another occasion, a newborn baby had to be taken to a hospital by force, after the mother refused to go to a hospital to give birth to avoid contact with hospitals and physicians.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other cases of child abuse and neglect have been reported within the group.<sup id="cite_ref-baby_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-baby-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Perception_in_Israeli_society">Perception in Israeli society</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Haredi_burqa_sect&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Perception in Israeli society"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Israeli press has adopted the informal epithet "<a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a> mothers" to refer to the followers of Keren's teachings on modesty.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to <a href="/wiki/Miriam_Shaviv" title="Miriam Shaviv">Miriam Shaviv</a>, the estimated 100 "gullible and needy" Jewish women, for whom Keren was a holy woman, were not forced, but convinced by Keren "that the ideal for a woman was not to be seen in public (and not even to be heard – she used to stop talking for days on end). Negating themselves, she was telling them, making themselves invisible, was the height of <a href="/wiki/Frumkeit" class="mw-redirect" title="Frumkeit">frumkeit</a>, while, in fact, it has no basis whatsoever in <a href="/wiki/Halachah" class="mw-redirect" title="Halachah">halachah</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Israel_National_Council_for_the_Child" title="Israel National Council for the Child">Israel National Council for the Child</a> has requested that the Welfare Ministry look into the matter and make sure this behavior is not harmful to the girls.<sup id="cite_ref-novick_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-novick-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religious_and_legal_reaction">Religious and legal reaction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Haredi_burqa_sect&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Religious and legal reaction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The response by other <a href="/wiki/Orthodox_Judaism" title="Orthodox Judaism">Ultra Orthodox</a> schools has been stronger than the rest of the public, and characterized by consternation, particularly against the <span title="Hebrew-language romanization"><i lang="he-Latn">shal</i></span> garment.<sup id="cite_ref-novick_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-novick-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An anonymous <span title="Yiddish-language romanization"><i lang="yi-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Pashkevil" title="Pashkevil">pashkevil</a></i></span> condemning the "cult" of "<a href="/wiki/Epikoros_(Judaism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Epikoros (Judaism)">epikoros</a>" women was posted in <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a> in September 2011. The <a href="/wiki/Edah_HaChareidis" title="Edah HaChareidis">Edah HaChareidis</a> issued an edict declaring the act of wearing the shawl to be a <a href="/wiki/Sexual_fetish" class="mw-redirect" title="Sexual fetish">sexual fetish</a> as deviant as scant clothing or nudity. "There is a real danger that by exaggerating, you are doing the opposite of what is intended, [resulting in] severe transgressions in sexual matters", explains Edah member Rabbi Shlomo Pappenheim. The religious court of <a href="/wiki/Beit_Shemesh" title="Beit Shemesh">Beit Shemesh</a> issued a sharp condemnation of the group, and warned Jewish women and girls not to be drawn after them or follow their customs.<sup id="cite_ref-bloomfield_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bloomfield-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>People in Beit Shemesh, which includes some of the most religiously radical sects in ultra-Orthodoxy, considered the sect to be zealous to the point of ridicule.<sup id="cite_ref-JP96228_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JP96228-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Even <a href="/wiki/Sikrikim" title="Sikrikim">Sikrikim</a> came out against the phenomenon of wearing veils, which they consider extreme. The women were regularly ostracized and humiliated by the local <a href="/wiki/Haredi" class="mw-redirect" title="Haredi">Haredi</a> community because of their clothing. "We pulled them off buses and yelled at them, 'Desecrators of God's name!<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>", one inhabitant said.<sup id="cite_ref-JP96228_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JP96228-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The movement has caused severe distress among the women's husbands and relatives, though most husbands endure it. Some men accuse the covered women of being immodest, because they draw more attention to themselves with their unusual dress.<sup id="cite_ref-npr_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-npr-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-novick_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-novick-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One man went to a rabbinical court in an attempt to get a ruling to force his wife to stop wearing the burka. Instead, the court, however, found the woman's behaviour so "extreme" that it ordered the couple to undergo an immediate religious divorce.<sup id="cite_ref-bloomfield_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bloomfield-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2014, Israeli police shot a member of the sect after she walked into the <a href="/wiki/Western_Wall" title="Western Wall">Western Wall</a> area without stopping at a security checkpoint. She survived, and was taken to the hospital for treatment.<sup id="cite_ref-shooting_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shooting-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Literature">Literature</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Haredi_burqa_sect&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Yair_Nehorai" title="Yair Nehorai">Yair Nehorai</a>, an Israeli lawyer who has represented individuals involved in the "Taliban Mother" case and other ultra-Orthodox extremists, has written a book loosely based on the real-life "Taliban Mother" case.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The book, <i>Taliban Son</i>, has been released in Hebrew and in German translation. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Similar_movements">Similar movements</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Haredi_burqa_sect&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Similar movements"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Another Haredi group which requires female adherents to wear Islamic style veils is the <a href="/wiki/Lev_Tahor" title="Lev Tahor">Lev Tahor</a> cult of Israeli-Canadian rabbi <a href="/wiki/Shlomo_Helbrans" title="Shlomo Helbrans">Shlomo Helbrans</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However it is not a burqa sect but a <a href="/wiki/Chador" title="Chador">chador</a> sect, as the women's faces are not covered. A <a href="/wiki/Jewish_Messiah_claimants" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish Messiah claimants">Messianic claimant</a> and <a href="/wiki/Faith_healer" class="mw-redirect" title="Faith healer">faith healer</a> from <a href="/wiki/Tel_Aviv" title="Tel Aviv">Tel Aviv</a> named <a href="/wiki/Goel_Ratzon" title="Goel Ratzon">Goel Ratzon</a> reportedly lived with 32 women who neighbors said "wore modest clothing that neighbors likened to those of religious Muslims" before he was arrested.<sup id="cite_ref-ratzon_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ratzon-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Haredi_burqa_sect&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-npr-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-npr_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-npr_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88381958">"A Jewish Movement to Shroud the Female Form"</a>. <i>NPR</i>. 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