These amazing photos, of 40,000 Orthodox Jewish males filling New York’s Citi Field (with another 20,000 off-site), have been making the rounds. Some writers suggested the all-male meeting was sexist and/or excessively secretive. Predictable reactions from those made anxious by such a striking visual expression of the size and vitality of a faith community often ignored by the commentariat.
The meeting focused on the perils of the internet and included a discussion of the problem of internet pornography that presumably would have been quite awkward had both men and women been present.
The photos also evoke archive photographs of ball stadiums in days when men would wear suits to sporting events. The monochrome is a bit severe, especially for off-hours, but stadiums sure do look good in suits.
May 23rd, 2012 | 1:54 pm
God bless our Orthodox Jewish friends for having the guts to publicly talk about the evils of internet pornography. Our Catholic bishops and priests need to address this evil boldly and explicitly.
May 23rd, 2012 | 10:07 pm
Boy, I did a double take on this one. The original Promise Keepers!
May 25th, 2012 | 2:20 pm
[...] interview the Atlantic’s Jennie Rosenberg Gritz spoke with Eytan Kobre, an organizer of last weekend’s event at Citi Field in New York. Though some outsiders framed that public showing as a technophobic “rally [...]
May 26th, 2012 | 3:11 pm
[...] Wow: the sight of 40,000 Orthodox Jewish men crowded into a baseball stadium was even more amazing than it [...]
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