Scooped!

Um, Elana Sztokman over the Forward's The Sisterhood Blog, I think you might've been scooped on this one.

In a post entitled, Why Orthodox Girls Don't Figure Skate, Ms. Sztokman speaks about the difficulties that Orthodox Jewish women face when they want to pursue "non-traditional" careers- i.e. anything outside of teaching, nursing and the "therapies." Specifically, she is referring to her childhood desire to figure skate and sing. Of those types of aspirations, she writes:

Some professions demand working on Friday night, some demand “indecent” clothing, some are too “physical”, and some are just, well , pas nisht, or not done.

Hmm, I wonder where we've heard that story before.

Oh yes, right here.