Religion & Beliefs
Sex(ish) Roundup
By AmyGuth / December 13, 2007
What about news of a Hooters in Israel? (I can't help but to wonder if there has ever been a battle of altering the uniform to conform to religious modesty mandates? I mean, if a woman is a qualified applicant, or say she is an employee who then decides to become more.. covered… wouldn't the company legally have to give her wiggle room? I wonder if that's ever come up for them? Sure, working at hooters probably wouldn't be on your list of things to do if you were concerned with such matters, but again, what if someone was already working at such a place and then decided…? yes, yes, modestly is more than just attire, it's situational and behavioral, too, but I just wonder. Anyway: Hooters. Covering. Discuss.) What are our thoughts on JOFA's class teaching teachers of brides-to-be about sex? Of course, you caught Knesset Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs chairman Michael Nudelman being called upon to do something for immigrants pushed into the sex trade, too. A lesbian couple is getting recognized as co-mama and co-mama, while the IDF Rabbi is pissed about women in combat. Uh, and some Israeli physicians are interested in bringing the labiaplasty and vaginoplasty to Eretz Yisroel. Ew, ouch and ew.
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I already see Jewlicious on the blogroll in the right column.
 Sorry. Had to put in a shout out to David because we're now facebook buddies with people in common.
 Yeah. So. Stuff in Israel is different from stuff in the States. There's no protection against search and seizure. Police do not need probable cause to stop you on the street and go through your pockets. You can refuse to be searched but then that's considered probable cause. They can then haul you off to the police station where all your stuff will be searched anyway. I don't have any legal precedent that I know of that relates to the hypothetical situation you just mentioned BUT if one of the Hooters Israel waitresses suddenly became frum, the question of whether or not she could continue working there while wearing a more tsniusdik outfit is moot. Why? Because Hooters, even in Israel, is totally treiff. One can purchase sea food and dishes that mix meat and dairy. A frum worker would have to quit by sole virtue of the fact that it is forbidden to sell treiff to Jews. There's another issue too – if passerby saw her working there in a tsniusdik outfit, they might think the establishment was kosher – Jewish men entering a non-kosher eating establishment, even if it's just for a coke or to use the phone, must remove their kippahs for exactly that reason. Thus while your hypothetical situation brings to light many interesting legal issues, it'll never happen.
 On another note, now that you've cited us, would it kill you to add Jewlicious to the Faithhacker blog roll? We added you guys to ours a long time ago. Can we have some bloggy reciprocity or what?
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I don't know how well it would work in Israel, but in the States, Hooters has successfully fought discrimination suits on the basis that they're hiring performers/entertainers, not just waiters and waitresses.
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