'90210' pool billboard upsets Brooklyn Jews

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In addition to plausibilty, teen drama 90210 has violated Hasidic Jewish law with a billboard showing mixed company lounging around an oddly shaped pool. Unlike the Parent Television Council, United Jewish Organization president Rabbi David Niederman isn’t worried about threesomes. Instead, he says the billboard offends merely because "having men and women swimming together is … not permissible, even if they are fully clothed," which is why he’s protesting its placement facing his Brooklyn community.

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