Tara's Fieldcraft
| 13:21 UK time, Friday, 28 April 2006
We carried a story by our favourite New Yorker, Tara Gadomski, this morning about a fistfight that broke out at the burial this week of the Grand Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum in New York state.
It was just the latest incident in the heated battle for leadership of the Satmar Jews, an ultra-Orthodox and controversial sect of Hasidism, which owns an estimated $500 million worth of New York property.
Different sides of the sect have backed different candidates for the new Grand Rabbi, and the dispute is
Tara had more trouble than she expected when she went to get the story in Brooklyn.
She wrote me a note about it:
"... an interesting thing happened when I was trying to do vox-pops.. for the first time in my career, someone said to me, "Send a man and we'll talk to him.. we don't talk to women." And then I was sent away to the other side of the street, the "woman's side."
I was a bit bummed because I had dressed really conservatively, and I thought was being sensitive. However, I was even more dismayed by my reaction... as I walked to the other side of the street, I kept mumbling, "gee, I thought we were in AMERICA.... I'm on a public street in AMERICA...."
I guess women journos in the Middle East get it all the time.... I was surprised at how annoyed I was.
But anyway, as always happens in these things.. the egos of some of the men took over, and they actually came to me to talk. I just waited with a microphone, and they came."
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