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Secret sex & other rules of ultra-Orthodox sect revealed on Facebook

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Published: 5 July 2016

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Ger Hasidim's secret rules on male-female relations revealed by ex-member - Yair Ettinger - Haaretz 03.07.16
List of 104 rules posted on Facebook includes ban on using words such as 'woman' and on two men or boys sitting on the same bed or being alone in a room. Dr Shlomo Tikochinsky, a researcher of the Haredi-Lithuanian community, described Esti Weinstein’s manuscript as ‘the most serious indictment of a Jewish sect in our time, a tragedy of distorted education regarding the female body.’
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