[Avodah] Mixed swimming

[Meir Shinnar]

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>  Meir Shinnar wrote:
>  > WRT mixed swimming
>  > This discussion has come up in the past, and, as I previously
>  > documented, it was common practice for rabbanim and rebbitzens to go
>  > mixed swimming at least through the 1950s -  including names that are
>  > well known - and the standards of tzniut were comparable to what is
>  > seen at most family friendly beaches and pools.
RZS
>  No, you did not document this, you merely claimed it, while refusing
>  to name names.   I do not accept that the people who did this were
>  bnei samcha.

I have named names to the moderator and to others (Micha, I can give
documentation to you again, if desired) .  Given the current climate,
I don't want the memories of those besmirched by the shualim who would
view this as reflecting badly on those who did it.  BTW, RH Maryles
can confirm that the mishpachot of some recognized litvish gdolim in
the litvish family went mixed swimming and that it was the norm...

Another poster mentioned Marienbad.   Another common resort was
Trieste, that my father remembers - and it was common for rabbanim to
go swimming there (and my father's rav from Europe, smicha from
Pressburg, rosh yeshiva in the states, went swimming at the beach
until the early 50s, until he said that it was becoming impossible to
do so in his position, given the kanaut that he was experiencing  -
that banned all normal activities such as  swimming...

Meir Shinnar