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Wigging out: DMV forces ultra-Orthodox NYC woman to remove head covering against her faith

"Forcing Ms. Fellig—or any married, ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman who wears a head covering—to remove [their] head covering in public is akin to forcing a secular person to strip naked in front of strangers, carrying all the same shame, humiliation, and abasement," she said in the

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Wigging out: DMV forces ultra-Orthodox NYC woman to remove head covering against her faith"Forcing Ms. Fellig—or any married, ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman who wears a head covering—to remove [their] head covering in public is akin to forcing a secular person to strip naked in front of strangers, carrying all the same shame, humiliation, and abasement," she said in the
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