Shop owners seeking "modest clothing" will be prosecuted?

Will store owners located on Lee Avenue, the central Avenue in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, be prosecuted?

After Pesach seven shopkeepers will meet with representatives of the Human Rights Committee of New York for a hearing. This comes after the latter claimed that the business held by shopkeepers ads were hung seeking to dress modestly. According to them – it is a violation of human right law.

According to the complaint, a representative of the Commission visited the neighborhood stores on July 24 last year, and noticed the ads displayed on the display windows of seven stores. "There is no dress code problem," explained the committee. "There is a problem in an attempt to force religious beliefs on others".

This is a hearing designed to bridge the gap between the representatives of law and shopkeepers. But despite attempts to reduce the gaps between the parties, store owners claim that there is no violation of the law.

"There is no one who didn’t received services at these stores because of the ads," explained lawyer Deborah Allen, representing the owners, in a conversation with VIN news site. "There would have been a claim of discrimination if the ad was referring only to women, but in this case it is directed to men and women alike."

However, store owners hope that the meeting will resolve the issue and prevent it from coming to court.

Lately the Brooklyn district attorney's office began to investigate allegations that the modesty members of the ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods acted unlawfully. Among other things, the office received complaints from shops threatened - by the activists, from residents in ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods that their homes were broken into due to holding advanced technology devices, and ultra-Orthodox community citizens received threats claiming that they deviated from the rules of modesty.

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