Haredim Ban Electronic Screens For In-Store Advertising, Launch New Campaign Against Hospital Construction

In-store closed circuit television screens used to advertise products or other electronic means of advertising banned.

From MyRightWord:

…It prohibits, in the name of the Badatz (בית דין צדק), store owners from employing digital screens and other electronic means for purposes of advertisement.

It was a busy day for haredim.

They also announced the beginning of a new campaign – i.e., street war – against Barzilai Hospital's planned expansion, which MyRightWord's Yisrael Medad notes is to be built over an ancient non-Jewish cemetery, itself lost and buried for hundreds of years.

The bones will be reinterred nearby.

Haredim object even though all experts say the graves are not the burial places of Jews, and even though Jewish graves could be reinterred for a project like this.

Comments

[rabbidw]

What is the issue about digital screens? Did someone fail to make the required payoffs to the right people? Is there an halachic excuse for this idiocy?

[effie]

When they opposed visual screens on buses to help passengers who might be hearing impaired know their stop, the rationale, if you can call it that, was that it could be used for naughty purposes.

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[effie]

Plus, as you noted, the right palms have yet to be greased.

[A E ANDERSON]

What quibble do the loonies have with digital video technology that didn't bother them with analog technology? After all, analog video has been with us for more than 50 years, and these nut jobs wait until now to issue their silly fatwa!!

[A E ANDERSON]

I'm all for freedom of worship, but it reaches a point where religion becomes cult and devotion becomes exploitation. At some point, with all their kashrut rackets, I think the state needs take a good look at shutting these guys down, either on criminal or psychiatric grounds.

[A. Nuran]

You could scribble naughty words and pictures on the back of a Sefer Torah. Does that mean we have to empty out the Ark in every synagogue?

This isn't about God. It's about people who see their own faces when they pray.

[effie]

With the screens on the buses, they wanted them off all bus lines - not just the ones in their neighborhoods. So, they can even impose their religious will on others who do not share their extremism.

They have too much power and I can't understand why Israel puts up with it. I understand that Israel has plenty of enemies to worry about but there is an enemy within that they better wake up to and address.

[al Farabi]

So, if its the bones of non-jews, its ok to build, but not if its the bones of jews. What fucking crap is this? How to win friends and influence people? And we ask why there is antisemitism in the world. shame on us!

[HaNavon]

If this is not stopped immediately, it will continue on a downward spiral until there is violence that erupts in non-charedi areas when the charedim come there to impose their will.

[Yosef ben Matitya]

in mishna times, the saducees considered leaving the lights on on the sabbath to be a dessecration of the sabbath.
the (then clever) rabbis looked from a pragmatic point of view with visionary qualities and decreed that not only it was permitted to leave the lights on during shabbat but it was 'a mitzva' they said.
asher qiddeshanu ...lehadliq. And for millenia, orthodox jews are mocking the tzduqim followed by the qaraim that sit in the dark. These gdolim, prohibiting, in the name of the Badatz (בית דין צדק), store owners from employing digital screens and other electronic means for purposes of advertisement.
are total idiots and not worthy to be followed. They are prohibiting the permitted & sit quietly by the side watching heretics and idolaters.

[Yosef ben Matitya]

Did someone fail to make the required payoffs to the right people? asks rabbidw

the right palms have yet to be greased. adds effie

actually it's worse than that. if it was just a matter of corruption (very very bad as it is), would have been better than having these totally degenerate morons running the asylum.

[harold]

Haredim Ban Electronic Screens For In-Store Advertising

From their point of view it makes sense. It is too easy to create content for digital displays. A good chunk of advertisements are overtly or covertly sexual in nature and that is the rub.

Take a look at most advertisement supplements for say, Macys, Target etc…

Instead of outlawing it they should set up a procedure where ads have to be approved for content. Listen we have kashrus standards for our stomachs, this is a kashrus standard for the eyes. You may laugh, but it does makes sense.

[A. Nuran]

Not just "No" harold. Fuck, no!

These totalitarian bastards don't just want the right to live the way they want. They want to force everyone to bow down and obey their every whim. Free people don't like slavery any better when a Jewish hand holds the whip.

[Alter Kocker]

A. Nuran:
You just hit the nail on the head, these bastards just don't want to live and worship in their own way, they believe that their way should be mandatory.

They must not be in any position of power and we as jews must not pander to them.

[Doresh el HaMeisim]

This has nothing to do with the rabbis or power. There are a few nutcases that where ever they look they see pritzus (even with closed eyes) so they run around to the rabbonim they should sigm an issur and these idiots are only too happy to sign as long as their names will get around. Here in New York we have a guy that is a pedophile, who runs around and distributes flayers banning computers, and guess these flayers are created on a computer. All they are afraid of is that someone will be able to disseminate some news about them too easily. Case in point: The issur on Chareidi websites came out a few days before the Tropper scandal broke.