{"id":42153,"date":"2012-03-21T19:29:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T03:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=42153"},"modified":"2012-03-21T19:29:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T03:29:05","slug":"orthodox-women-covering-their-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=42153","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Women Covering Their Hair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his second lecture on <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.jewishideas.org\/articles\/rabbi-joseph-messas\">R. Joseph Mesas<\/a> for <A HREF=\"http:\/\/torahinmotion.org\">Torah in Motion<\/a>, professor <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marc_B._Shapiro\">Marc B. Shapiro<\/a> says: In the 1950s at <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.yu.edu\/riets\/\">RIETS<\/a> (the rabbinical school at Yeshiva University), about one percent of the rabbis in training had wives who <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tzniut\">covered their hair<\/a>. 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