Link: “Girl gets drunk [in Tel Aviv], has massive orgy in a club. The funny thing is, even the fact that the “victim” herself claims it was consensual doesn’t bother the police and the feminist media, who continue investigating what is now dubbed “a horrible rape case” across the country.”
Orit Arfa writes in 2005: “Allenby 40 is known as the sleaziest dance bar in Israel; but if you ask the owner, an Orthodox Jew named Mendy, he would say it’s not sleazy but liberating. So, what would a Jew who grew-up Chabad know about liberation? A lot, it seems. At Allenby 40, Orthodox men can gulp a beer and three chasers with their kippah on — guilt-free. And if the religious feel that way, you can imagine how the secular Jew gets down at Allenby 40. The decor is minimalist — just some walls painted flesh and a few dangling disco balls, but the DJs and overly gregarious bartenders get Jews of all streams dancing together, which, of course, would make the Lubbavitcher Rebbe proud.”
From Haaretz: Israeli Police have completed an investigation into a video clip showing a young woman having sexual intercourse with multiple partners in public at Allenby 40, a frequented Tel Aviv nightclub.
The video clip in question, which was circulated on WhatsApp after the incident occured roughly three months ago, showed a woman having sex with multiple partners in fullview at the Tel Aviv club.
After opening an investigation this summer on the grounds that the sexual act caught on camera may not have been consensual, police discovered that the public intercourse, which took place after an undefined sexually oriented competition in the club, was consensual, and not rape, as some on social media claimed. Upon questioning the young woman from the video, a Gush Dan resident, police discovered that though she was intoxicated at the time, she knowingly and willingly engaged in the act with one or multiple men, Channel 10 reported Wednesday.
One of the men shown in the video told police that he did not know the woman in question, and he thought she worked at the night club.
Despite the fact that the woman says the sex was consensual, social media exploded with criticism of the nightclub. An entire Facebook page was launched solely calling for the nightclub to be closed, claiming that the club exploited women and sanctioned the act, which detractors labeled rape.
Police questioned the club owners, who claimed that those who had circulated the clip meant to damage their reputation.
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Mendy Katan, owner of one of the wildest and most successful nightclubs in Tel Aviv, comes from an ultra-Orthodox family from Kfar Chabad, wears a black skullcap and observes the religious commandments. How does he resolve the contradiction?
By Asaf Carmel
Five and a half years ago, Mendy [Menachem Mendel] Katan tried and failed to pass the selection at the entrance to a club at Allenby 40 in Tel Aviv. “There was a small nightclub there called Dream Dance,” says Katan, “and Omer Efrat, who is now a partner, was working there as a DJ and had invited me to come. The guard at the entrance looked me up and down and saw a guy with a white shirt, black pants and a black kippa [skullcap]. He said to me, `Sorry, but you don’t belong here. You can’t come in.’ At the same time he passed a hand over my head and caressed the kippa. I explained to him that I had only come to visit a friend, but he didn’t even bother to throw another glance in my direction. He only said, `This isn’t the place for you, get a move on.’
“Meanwhile, everyone was looking at me, and I felt as though I had horns. In the end I asked somebody who did go in to approach the DJ and tell him that a guy from Kfar Chabad named Mendy was standing at the door, and they weren’t letting him in. Only after Omer intervened did the guard deign to let me in.” (Kfar Chabad is a village founded by members of the Lubavitch Hasidic sect).
This humiliating experience outside the nightclub had a profound effect on Katan. “I then got it into my head that I had to do something significant in the area of night life. It created a strong drive in me; I felt as though it was me against all of Tel Aviv. Probably if I had removed my kippa they would have let me into the nightclub without any problem, but I swore to myself that I would not take off the kippa just for a beer. The kippa is a value on which I grew up and was educated, and I won’t sell my values in order to enter any bar in the world.”
