Exhibit🅰ing a complete lack of common sense, the city’s Human Rights Commission is determined to take seven Hasidic-owned stores in Brooklyn to trial for the high crime of requiring modest dress of their customers.
It was a bad idea when the city’s case was first𝄹 filed. And it’s a bad idea now.
Even so, an adm🌟inistrative law judge has ruled that the case should proceed and has ordered a two-day hearing in administrative court come January.
At issue are shop signs reported in a Post news story this past summer. They read 🥃as follows: “No Shorts, No Barefoot, No Sleeveless, No Low Cut N🐠ecklines Allowed.”
In its wisdom, the Human R🌟ights Commission finds th♏is “discriminatory.”
The loওgic behind the charges is sillier still. In an interview, agency general counsel Cliff Mulqueen claimed the signs imposed “certain rules of the Jewish faith,” which “crosses the line.” Of course, the signs did no such thing.
Mulqueen also asserts that the signs discri🗹minated against women, non-Jews and non-religious Jews by making them feel uncomfortable, even though the signs apply to all potential customers.
And as we’ve noted before, any customer who covers up can be ser⛄ved. People who are barred because of race or gender can’t do the same.
Our guess is that most New Yorke♉rs recognize these signs as no different from any other dress code imposed by a restaurant, hotel or any other place for reasons of “propriety” rather th🧔an “modesty.”
We’ve never🌼 even seen the city sue a pizza parlor that might post a sign reading “No shirt, no shoes, no service” — let alone fancy eateries like the Four Seasons, which require business attire.
Most people probably take these for granted𒀰. So when a group of Jewish-owned stores are singled out and treated like the KKK, we have to wonder if there are other agendas at work here.
The Human Rights Commission is right about one thing: There definitely is discrimi𒐪nation involved in this case. But the reaꦅl discrimination here is being levied against these shops, not by them.
The next ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚ🅰ᩚmayor should do us all a favor and drop this case.