A storm has been raging in recent days in a religious community, after the dress of a non-religious woman who lives in the place managed to provoke resentment.
It is a religious community, but one in which many seculars actually live who maintain the status quo of the place - do not travel on Shabbat and do not desecrate Shabbat in public.
Recently, the Yishuv committee was approached with a complaint about one of the women who dresses in a way that they think is not modest.
"She's wearing jerseys," was one of the complaints.
This provoked a wide-ranging discussion on the question of whether it is legitimate to walk in clothing that does not suit the nature of the locality, and who sets the required standards.
The Facebook group "Halachic Feminists" wrote an anonymous post, in which one of the residents of the settlement said that she was uncomfortable with the heated debate.
"My unequivocal opinion is that it is not the committee's business to comment or engage in this. There have never been rules of dress here, nor is it true that they should be."
She said some committee members believe it is legitimate to approach a woman and comment on her.
"I dislike the discussion that to me is immodest, and I feel it evokes in me difficult triggers in treating a woman as a sexual object - that one should be modest so as not to disturb men."
This is an issue that has arisen in recent years in many religious localities.
If in the past the localities were relatively homogeneous, then in recent years more and more religious people are coming "on the religious spectrum" or completely secular people.
Some of the new residents keep some of the mitzvos, and others only outwardly maintain a religious appearance in order to belong to the community socially.
Many of these residents are continuing sons who themselves are not religious - but their parents who live there are kippah wearers.
As expected, there were also sharp disagreements in the responses to the post.
"It's just shocking and illegitimate. Where does the border cross? It sounds like the beginning of a chastity shift," one respondent wrote.
On the other hand, he said in one of the responses to the journalist post Yoav Sorek, in Ofra the discussion on the matter was intense and in-depth.
"I do not understand the shock or innocence here. The dress code is undoubtedly part of the nature of a place and its character. When it comes to a far-reaching deviation from the norm, and especially one that can not be ignored, it is a real violation of the character "They set it up."
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