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It is not your everyday mall. The shopping centre in the Tel Aviv suburb has no coffee shops, no cinema, and bans men from its upper floor. There is a long list of things that Shopping Bnei Brak does not have…….Bnei Brak�s 20 stores are carefully calibrated to appear alluring without overstepping the mark to give offence to extreme conservatives. The rabbis agree. Clothes in the women-only department store have been given �kosher� certificates, declaring them sufficiently demure for ultra-Orthodox women. The rabbis also ensured the absence of a caf� and cinema to guard against unnecessary fraternising between men and women. All the mannequins are headless and there is a dearth of in-store posters because of the Torah�s edict against any likeness of the human image. On the packaging for women�s tights the human form has been discreetly hidden behind strategically placed stickers. The bedding department has only single beds because even married ultra-Orthodox couples must sleep separately………..