Reply To: What does a Chamsa symbolize in Orthodox judiasm? ✋

1. Joseph I hear your point, and generally you are right- but in this case, you aren’t. Leave it to the girls to know what girls wear, ok? I have seen many many BY girls who have such sweaters, of course a PROPER BY girl would only wear such a sweater in a camp setting or as pajamas, never never publicly outside. Many of them are from the USA and are like me before I moved here. I wasn’t particularly for the army nor against it, I didn’t really know anything about it at all, but sweaters were cool and in. Fashion doesn’t really care about your values or hashkafa. If you ask girls who have them for pajamas they will say they don’t know if they should support or be against the army…but it’s just an “in” thing and a “cool” thing to have a sweater.

Although I will admit that fashion has gone out a bit…I see much less of them in recent years.
I’ve been to a few mainstream BY camps though….filled with IDF sweaters. But again, I haven’t been to any in the past 3 years, so fashion might of changed.

In any case, about the Chamsa’s I still don’t understand DaasYochid’s post. Anyone want to try to explain?