Don't a lot of Hasidic men wear pretty broad-brimmed hats? Those keep rain out of one's face and leave hands free for carrying packages,, one's prayerbook or whatever. No idea what the women do and lazily not even volunteering to research....
DC
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 7:32 PM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com>wrote:
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> google turned up so many false positives, I turn to y'all. As I've
> mentioned, I lived a couple of blocks from three Jewish temples and there's
> a large Hasidic population here. It's been raining for days and I noticed:
> no one uses an umbrella. These are the kind of folks who go to Temple
> several times a day. It's been raining pretty much all day, for days. So
> it's not like they got caught out without an umbrella. Anyone know the
> scoop?
>
> shag
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