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An ultra-Orthodox man walks past a sign calling on women to dress modestly in a religious neighbourhood in Jerusalem, Friday, Sept. 12, 2008. In Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, where the rule of law takes a back seat to the rule of God, religious zealots are on a crusade to stamp out unchaste behaviour. They hurl stones at women for “sins” as trivial as wearing a red blouse, and attack stores that sell devices that can access the Internet. In recent weeks, modesty enforcers have been accused of breaking into the apartment of a Jerusalem woman and beating her because they suspected she consorted with men. They also torched a store that sells MP4 players, fearing devout Jews would use them to download pornography. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
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An ultra orthodox Jewish man blows the Shofar (ram’s horn) during the ?Selichot?, Jewish penitential poems and prayers, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem?s old city on September 21, 2008. 7:10 a.m. ET, 9/21/08
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish boy reaches for a chicken, later to be slaughtered as part of a Kaparot ritual in which it is believed that one transfers one’s sins from the past year into the chicken, in Mea Shearim ultra-orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem, Monday, Oct. 6, 2008. The ritual is performed before the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish year which starts at sundown Wednesday. The chicken is then slaughtered and given to charity.
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Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad greets Rabbi Moshe Ber Beck of Neturei Karta,
a fringe Ultra-Orthodox movement within the anti-Zionist bloc, during a meeting in New York, September 24, 2008.
Shmuel Rabinovitz removes notes from the cracks of the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest prayer site, in the Old City of Jerusalem September 23, 2008. As the Jewish New Year draws near, Rabbi Rabinovitz headed the team that cleaned out the cracks and made room for more paper notes that Jews believe are notes to God
JULY 31: Ultra-Orthodox Jews pray over month-old infant Yehoshua Rosenboim, who lies in a silver bowl on the rabbi’s table, as they perform the Redemption Of The First Born ceremony at the Lalov synagogue July 31, 2008 in Bnei Brak in central Israel. According to Jewish biblical law, every naturally-born first-born child who is male belongs to God, and his parents should “redeem” him by making a symbolic payment to a Cohen, a Jewish man descended from the first Jewish priest Aaron, the brother of the biblical Moses.
