The following is from WPIX:
Occupy Wall Street isn’t the only protest attracting media attention in our area. A religious group in Williamsburg organized a protest of a hair salon on Lee Avenue.
PIX11 News obtained a controversial flyer in Yiddish, circulating around the predominately Orthodox community in Williamsburg. The flyer asks people to protest the Iris Salon, at 311 Lee Avenue, because it is “immodest” and is allegedly offensive to the surrounding religious community.
PIX11 News visited the salon. At the site of the salon, there is only a outside saying “Cleaners” and curtains covering all the windows. The owner of the salon refused to comment on this story.
The lastest protest of the group in front of the salon, was back in May when almost a hundred people gathered.
Pictures of the last protest are posted on a Facebook page created by supporters of the salon.
The page says, “the Willamburg Taliban” is attacking the salon ownership and, “a small group of extremists is seeking to terrorize and honest businesswoman.”
NOTE: A previous protest againt this salon was held in Crown heights. To read more about it, click HERE to read the YWN report.
(Source: WPIX)
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5 Responses
Iris gives good service, affordable prices and makes ladies look and feel pretty for their husbands. Don’t we know women back in the times of the Beis Hamikdash adorned themselves & used scented oils & cosmetics? What’s wrong with having clean nails and smooth feet? Surely husbands would like their wives to feel good about themselves. Is that so bad? What, a pedicure is going to send them into evil ways & OTD? Beats me.
The protesters should be matzliach.
At least in America they have the right to protest.
These Taliban thugs should move to Pakistan.
NK nutjobs. Nothing new.
A woman, very clearly from a Yerushalmi family (black beltless dress, black tichel, etc.) was seen in a perfume shop in Ge’ulah trying the various fragrances etc. Asked about her actions by an individual who was as unfamiliar with Yerushalmi women as she was with yoshon and cholov Yisroel, she replied, “you don’t think we adorn ourselves and prepare ourselves for our husbands. We wear perfume (and I heard even sheitlach) at home for our husbands. Never out of the house for someone else’s husband.
Having said that, if the salon and spa has pictures in their windows that b’nei Torah try hard to avoid, I think the protesters are correct. This was the case in Flatbush some time ago, and the owner removed the pictures and eventually moved the store completely.