A lot, it turns out. “This was actually traditional clothing for high-society Jewish women until even the mid-20th century,” Efrat Assaf-Shapira, a curator of the museum’s vast collection of ...

“I wanted to enhance that and bring back beauty to the Shabbat table while also honoring women ... adopted by the Iranian Jewish community to decorate wedding dresses for local Jewish brides.

Thirty Galician Rabbis issued a joint ban several days ago against the appearance of the Jewish of girls and women in sleeveless and low-necked dresses. The ban was proclaimed in all the ...