An internal police department suggestion that policewomen call in a male colleague to do the talking in matters connected with the Hasidic community has raised hackles in the police brotherhood. Women make up one third of the police force in Montreal.

(I wonder whether the Brooklyn police have any special policy for dealings with the Hasidic community there.)

In another story bearing on the accommodation of religious feelings, the Park Extension CLSC has banned men from its prenatal classes even though boyfriends and husbands routinely attend elsewhere.
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