Reply To: Women only hours at a public municipal pool in Williamsburg

The financial and US constitutional issue is similar to the issue in the Ramapo and Lakewood school districts. Public funds are expended in ways that frum Jews cannot utilize – frum Jews cannot send their children to public school for a variety of reasons, and frum Jews cannot swim in public pools where immodest attire is permitted. Public funds can pay for buses to yeshiva, but not for teachers in the yeshivas. There is no easy way out, but on the swimming pool issue, public authorities seem to have made an appropriate and legal accomodation.