Reply To: How To Avoid Handshakes

I once heard an intresting story from my grandmother that happend in Hungry before WWII. The president of Hungry Mr. Harti togeter with is wife came to visit a jewish store in Budapast. Mrs. Harti extended her hand to shake the store owners hand, but he said “in our religion the man is shaking the other mans hand while the lady shakes the other ladys hand”. There was an uproar in the communitty with people saying that it was a “chilul hashem”, however the next day Mrs. Harti was qouted in the newspaper saying “what a beutifull religion”.