Sentence examples for modesty squads from inspiring English sources
It is a potent threat in a neighborhood where shadowy, sometimes self-appointed modesty squads use social and economic leverage to enforce conformity.
"Modesty squads" of young men take it upon themselves to threaten and sometimes enact violence and ostracism on anyone who strays, and the specter of their vigilantism helps gentler authority figures, like the local rabbi, maintain control.
The modesty squad is a sort of Jewish Taliban.
According to Rabbi Rosenberg, the rapist he caught in the act was a member of the modesty squad, which charged him with the unconscionable offense of having previously been seen walking down a street in Jerusalem with a married woman.
As for Rabbi Rosenberg, when he voiced his concerns to the rabbinate in Israel, he was brought up on charges by the mishmeres hatznuis, the archconservative Orthodox "modesty squad," which regulates, often through threats of violence, proper moral conduct and dress in the relations between men and women.
Imagine that, in response to the reported "secret squads" enforcing modesty in conservative Hasidic parts of Brooklyn, local activists protested topless in front of random synagogues across the country while dressed in crude caricatures of Hasidic men.
-- Joseph Berger of the NYT reports on the "secret squads" that enforce modesty standards in Orthodox neighborhoods of Brooklyn.
Resist your natural modesty.
Modesty was his watchword.
