Modesty

Iranian singer arrested for not wearing hijab in Youtube concert video

Parastoo Ahmady, a 27-year-old singer, was arrested in the province of Mazandaran, Iran, following her virtual performance. 

 February 1 marks World Hijab Day. (Illustrative).

Rabbi Pinto shared: My meeting with the billionaire shook me

 Iran's police forces stand on a street amid the implementation of the new hijab surveillance in Tehran, Iran, April 15, 2023.

Iranian police shoot, paralyze woman over hijab law violation

A woman has her face covered with a scarf to protect her from the heat on a road during a hot summer day in Bhubaneswar, India, May 3, 2024.

Saudi Arabia sentences woman to 11 years for supporting women’s rights


Women wearing low cut tops barred from Facebook by Cambodian government

"Go to their places and order them to stop live-streaming until they change to proper clothes," the prime minister said.

Apsara dancers perform as people watching at the Freedom Park during a celebration of the International Human Rights Day in Phnom Penh, Cambodia December 10, 2019

Bar-Ilan U. eliminates requirements of modest dress, kippah for male religion classes

Students had been required to sign a statement accepting the requirements and acknowledging that the university operates “in the spirit of the Torah and tradition of Israel.”

Bar Ilan University's Institute for Nantechnology and Advanced Materials

Mayim Bialik embraces modest fashion line in Bet Shemesh

“I have decided that my sexual self is best reserved for private situations with those I am most intimate with,” she said in 2017. “I dress modestly."

Mayim Bialik embraces modest fashion line

The unorthodox credo of modest fashion icon Devora Golan

“Modesty doesn’t have to equal ugly or boring,” Golan’s Instagram tagline reads.

DEVORA GOLAN ‘could give a whole shiur on the topic of looking one’s best.’

My Modest Proposal: Let us all abstain from touching

Listening to Nancy Pelosi, I realized how much clarity shomer negia would bring to today’s confusing relationships.

Less of this?

Israel Museum exhibit uncovers the truth about clothing

Unrevealing clothes actually reveal much about the wearers, at the Israel Museum.

Muslim women in more contemporary attire

Jewish modest fashion designer Batsheva Hay grabs celebrity attention

When Hay, who grew up in a secular Jewish home, married her husband, the pair were beginning a journey of religious practice.

BATSHEVA HAY (right) with actress Christina Ricci and other models wearing her designs at her fashion show in New York in February.

Religious youths attack teen girl for 'immodest' clothing

No arrests were made yet, in the Tiberias incident.

Graffiti and signs in Beit Shemesh tell people to wear only modest clothing

#NotMeToo?

Haredi papers ignore International Women’s Day

The front page of a recent issue of Yated Neeman, a haredi newspaper in English

MK Touma-Sliman: Police failing to make radical Haredi neighborhoods safe

MK Touma-Sliman described Haredi areas of Beit Shemesh as "state within a state" Touma-Sliman describes Haredi areas of Beit Shemesh as "state within a state."

Ramat Beit Shemesh