Special notices have been posted in Hasidic synagogues in the Boro Park and Williamsburg sections of Brooklyn urging congregants not to use subways during rush hours to go to or from work. According to these notices, posted by Hasidic rabbis, subways should be avoided at these times because the crowding of men and women is often improper and because the attire of many women is immodest.
One synagogue notice states: “We call upon all those who have the fear of God touching their hearts to arrange their travel by bus because once there is an available way of avoiding travel by subway there is a special obligation to do so.” Citing the Talmud, the notice states that it is written that “All who have a possible way of doing something and do not do it are evil.” Special buses have been started from the two sections of Brooklyn, which have large populations of Hasidim, to Manhattan.
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