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size=2>From: "Meir Shinnar" <A
href="mailto:chidekel@gmail.com">chidekel@gmail.com</A><BR></FONT></DIV>
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size=2>WRT mixed swimming<BR>This discussion has come up in the past, and, as I
previously<BR>documented, it was common practice for rabbanim and rebbitzens to
go<BR>mixed swimming at least through the 1950s - including names that
are<BR>well known - </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>In one of the previous iterations of this thread, I once wrote, on Areivim,
a parody passage based on MOAG ("Making of a Gadol" -- the inspiring and
fascinating biography of R' Yakov Kaminetsky). In my parody I wrote that
the roshei yeshiva of Slabodka and their wives used to go mixed swimming.
I thought that this was so obviously over the top, such obvious parody, that
everyone would see immediately that I was making fun of the notion that mixed
swimming was ever accepted in the old yeshiva world. However, to my dismay
and distress, many people did NOT realize that it was meant as a parody and
actually took my post seriously. They really thought that I was quoting an
actual passage in MOAG! Of all the hundreds (make that
thousands) of posts I've written on A/A over the years, that is the one I most
intensely regret having written. In Slabodka they did NOT go mixed
swimming. I need to put that on the record, as partial expiation for my
past wrong-doing. Some things are just not properly the subject of
attempted humor.</DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff></FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><BR></B><BR><B>--Toby
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