{"id":53898,"date":"2016-06-06T10:36:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T15:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=53898"},"modified":"2016-06-06T10:36:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T15:36:07","slug":"separate-swim-periods-women-pit-new-york-times-citys-orthodox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/news\/separate-swim-periods-women-pit-new-york-times-citys-orthodox\/","title":{"rendered":"Separate swim periods for women pit New York Times against city\u2019s Orthodox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the JTA:<\/p>\n<p>An only-in-New-York story about a public swimming pool that offered women-only swim periods for the area\u2019s Orthodox community turned into a full-blown media firestorm\u00a0when The New York Times weighed in on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>The pool, located in the heavily Orthodox\u00a0Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, had been offering women-only hours since\u00a0the 1990s\u00a0to\u00a0accommodate\u00a0those whose\u00a0religious sensitivities forbid women and men from swimming together.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Parks Department canceled the women-only swim periods after an anonymous complaint was made to the city\u2019s Commission on Human Rights, only to reverse itself following objections\u00a0by Assemblyman Dov Hikind, an Orthodox politician representing the nearby Borough Park and Midwood neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/2016\/06\/03\/life-religion\/separate-swim-periods-for-women-pit-new-york-times-against-citys-orthodox\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the JTA: An only-in-New-York story about a public swimming pool that offered women-only swim periods for the area\u2019s Orthodox community turned into a full-blown media firestorm\u00a0when The New York Times weighed in on the subject. 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