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Brooklyn, NY – The Brooklyn Museum, located at 200 Eastern Parkway, has opened a controversial new department, The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center, dedicated to feminist art. Since the unveiling of this exhibit last weekend, it has become a contentious issue for the orthodox community. Due to the newly featured unseemly galleries, the museum now projects a decidedly non-tznius environment.
In this one-of-a-kind exhibition, they depict various forms of artwork that are inappropriate, immodest, and arguably insensitive, with many even featuring Chasidic subjects. Initial viewers have already expressed outrage at designs they perceive to be overtly vulgar and explicit. Given that yidden may unknowingly choose the museum for their Chol-Hamoed or year-round outings, we post this news item to alert our readers to this mainly overlooked, albeit important information. [VIN]
anon 1121,
I am not clear what point you are trying to make.
Are you saying that one can visit the museum but just stay away from the exhibit OR should one avoid the museum entirely?
Thank you.
Am I missing something?
You ride on the Subway – To go to work or to a doctor, etc.
You walk in Midtown Manhattan for the same reasons.
Of course it’s the duty of every Yid to do “Shmiras Aynayim” but it’s also the Halacha that for business or for medical reasons the term “ika darka achrina” doesn’t apply.
However, when it comes to a museum isn’t the objective to watch, observe and scrutinize?
So, again, what’s wrong with telling someone that there are objectionable material and whoever wouldn’t want themselves and their families to be exposed to it, should stay away?
Sometimes the sheer hatred for anything Torah’dig is so strong that it blinds the eye and slants the mind, it’s frightening………
anon 900
continue looking at the delightful stuff on the subways, but please refrain from going to the museum which has only a small section of controversial or objectionable matter.
Stay off the streets of Midtown Manhattan during the summer months.
What will come upon you cannot be written in this comment. WOrk at home.
Better yet, don’t work!
Become
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Go bomb the museum. That should make some of you happy. WHat about it?
anon 900,
your logic is baaaaad. I would not be going to the museum to see that particular exhibit. There is far more things to see in the museum than just this one objectionable item. How many times have you gone to a decent sized museum and not seen every exhibit on every floor due to time constraints, etc. Here too. You can be a mature cultured Orthodox jew and restrain yourself from that particular exhibit or you can be so hungry for this kind of stuff that you will take a peek at this exhibit, making sure that no body is watching you. SOmething along the lines of the TVs kept behind the closet doors in the homes of the “frum” !
Yes, I do maintain that the naked bodies on the subway in the summertime far surpasses anything you will see in the museum.
8:12 AM
There is a difference between seeing and looking. You may see something bad when riding a subway but that is much different than going to a museum to look at something bad. There is a fine book in english by Rav Wagshall – I think it is called “lift up thine eyes – I think it is from Feldheim. He talks about this –
If this were not so then we wouldn’t be able to leave our homes let alone ride the subway.
Thanks for the alert.
How do you guys allow your readership audience to ride the subways of New York CIty daily?
What I see on the subways far surpasses anything that can possibly be hanging or displayed at the Brooklyn Museum.
WHat will it take to place a prohibition on riding the NYC Subway system?
Does this mean that certain frum girls schools, that shall remain anonymous, should no longer hold their annual dinners at the Brooklyn Museum?
Does this mean that individuals in the Orthodox jewish community should no longer be allowed to make bar mitzvahs and bat mitzvahs meals and celebrations at the Brooklyn Museum?
I’m so proud of all of you! I expected to see comments of hatred and lists of phone numbers to call and people to harass. Instead, your acting like civilized human beings. And how right you all are – if you don’t like it, just don’t go. If you don’t want to see it, then don’t look at it.
Thanks for the warning, I appreciate it as well.
tzinius police at work!
fine, one more place to cross off my undecided list of where to go for chol hamoad
Thank You for the alert.
Thank you.