A school district in E Paso, Texas is facing backlash regarding a middle school's all-black clothing ban, as KFOX-TV reports.

In the past two weeks, a quintessentially local story became news around the world. The Charles Middle School in El Paso, Texas, banned all-black clothing for the coming school year because such attire "has become more associated with depression and mental health issues and/or criminality than with happy and healthy kids ready to learn."

The response was fast and furious. Krista Wongate, the chief of child and adolescent services at El Paso’s Emergence Health Network said: "... mental health and depression, they don’t have colors. They don’t have outfits."

Alex Lucero, a member of the community, objected as well. He said: "The color of clothing has nothing to do with your ability to do anything or feel any emotion."

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The response worked. The dress code was revoked.

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As is always the case with social, cultural, psychological and political questions, there is one book to consult for guidance – the Torah.

Let’s start with Genesis 28, perhaps the pivotal movement in the early history of the Jewish people. Rebecca has a few hours to prevent her husband, Isaac, from making a huge mistake, and giving the blessing of eternal Jewish leadership to their impulsive, unthoughtful and undisciplined son Esau.

She has an alternative: Esau’s twin, Jacob. If Rebecca can convince Isaac that Jacob is really Esau, her husband will – mistakenly but irrevocably – give the blessing to Jacob. The future of God’s project on earth is in her hands, at that moment.

The problem: Jacob, we are told, "dwelt in tents" – indicating that he spent his time studying, apart from the difficult doings of the world. He has never done anything like the trickery she needs him to perform. How can Rebecca get Jacob to immediately become like Esau. She has the solution. She tells Jacob to put on his brother’s "favorite clothes."

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Why Esau’s "favorite clothes"? Why, for that matter, Esau’s clothes at all? Isaac is blind, and would have no idea what Jacob was wearing. The clothes were not to deceive Isaac. They were to change Jacob. Rebecca knew that we become what we wear. Sure enough, the young man who "dwelt in tents" pulls the most important ruse of all time.

Moving from the first to the last book of........

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