Yiddish signs briefly spotted in Brooklyn recently asked Jewish women to step aside when a man is walking down the sidewalk.
The plastic signs bolted to trees in the Brooklyn neighborhood of South Williamsburg read, in Yiddish, “Precious Jewish Daughters: Please move over to the side when you see a man cross,” the Brooklyn Paper reported last week.
Sources told the Brooklyn Paper that the signs were part of a campaign by the Central Rabbinical Congress, which recently had published other decrees, including one in June forbidding women to wear tank tops. — jta