"Haredim don't only have problem with women, also with Aliens"

Entitled "Aliens? Not in Jerusalem," newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth published an item yesterday which offends the image of the Haredi sector. Below the gaudy red headline, it was written in bold letters: "Terrestrial designed to call you to learn for SAT – was disqualified for hanging on Egged buses. Argument: hurts haredim's feelings. Company: thoughtful of public."

Reporter Danny Adino Abeba, reports that "Egged refused to post billboards at stations and on buses because they the favorite alien perched on them may offend Haredim." The public relations firm that initiated the item, apparently, did not forget to emphasize more than once its client - "Kidum," and even helped those challenged in understanding what was written: "which is launching a new SAT course."

The broadcaster who has become famous for his statements against haredim, Gabi Gazit, also jumped on the bandwagon of aliens: "Religious coercion in Jerusalem has reached the point of ridiculousness. This couldn't be true", he opened his show last Thursday. "The Haredim make up things so that we'll get irritated and will continue to smile among themselves. Kidum firm has thought of an advertising campaign for its new psychometric course on signage on buses, with the advances of an alien figure. But Egged which knows its audience in Jerusalem well, has announced to the publisher in Tel Aviv, Haifa and Ra'anana - yes, in Jerusalem no.

"Why? Because the Haredim don't only have a problem with women, they also have a problem with aliens. They can not digest when they see an alien before their eyes, it's not a biblical figure for them, it does not wait six hours between meat and milk and doesn't know to put on tefillin in the morning. What is he, a Jew? He was born of a Jewish mother? He was converted halachically? So the haredim will continue to exclude women and aliens, for them it is about the same, no? "

Reuven Stein, Jerusalem haredi who encountered the tendentious item, said in a conversation with Behadrey Haredim that he has seen these billboards in a haredi neighborhood in Jerusalem, "so that the argument that the campaign was ruled out – is a lie," according to Stein, "If you find at the beginning of the article that this is a false and deliberate news item, can you believe this story at all? This way they are blackening the face of haredim for no reason, and we can not defend ourselves."

Earlier,Tal Sheffer put onto his Facebook a photo of the article and wrote: "It hurts their feelings because they are too stupid to access the SAT."

His intellectual friends lashed out against the haredim. "Oh, how stupid can one be? I've had enough! Come to the United States." Another surfer wrote: "You have to get the haredi sect outlawed! They destroyed Jerusalem, the haredim."

The 'Dosim' Project responded: "Since there is no connection between images of extraterrestrial to Jewish tradition, and we see no conflict between them and Judaism, it is unlikely that such a response was received. Even if a haredi called about it, then he represents his personal opinion only. There is no conflict between Jewish values or emotions of the Haredi public and a picture like this, and it's a shame to forcefully interpolate these elements to create unfounded titles for the promotion of this or that."

'בחדרי' גם ברשתות החברתיות - הצטרפו!