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Window Design Creates Controllable One-Way Viewing

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Kevin Robinson

For the past 2000 years of Orthodox Judaism, men and women have worshipped separately, divided either by a solid partition or by using a balcony. Now a professor at Washington University has invented a partition that will allow one-way viewing without the problems associated with conventional see-through mirrors. A combination of two-way mirrors angled at 45° and panels of flat black paint opposite panels of wallpaper create a partition that is see-through from one side only. The partition, called a mehitza, prevents the men from being distracted by the women, in accordance with Orthodox...Read full article

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