344 posts categorized "Bans & Censorship"

June 18, 2013: Haredi Gadol Bans Men's Wristwatches
Comments: 66 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Israel
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky argues that men should not wear wristwatches because doing so violates the prohibition of lo yilbosh gever simlat isha (men should not wear women's type of clothing). Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky Yeshiva World reports: HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky...

June 16, 2013: Satmar Rabbis Ban Matzliach Magazine
Comments: 13 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim
Satmar rabbis issue yet another ban, this time against Matzliach Magazine. Related articles Satmar Schools Send Anti-Draft, Anti-Israel Announcement Home With All Grade-School-Age Students Satmar's Williamsburg Faction Orders All Hasidim To Agree To Censorship Requirements Ordered By Its Leader; Those...

June 16, 2013: Satmar Attacks Business Conference For Haredim Over "Immodesty"
Comments: 11 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Women & Judaism
The business conference, held last week, had at least one non-Jewish waitress wearing a pants suit, and what appears to be two women wearing a normal summer dresses who accompanied a speaker. Related Post: First Ever Business Conference For Haredim...

June 6, 2013: Satmar's Williamsburg Faction Orders All Hasidim To Agree To Censorship Requirements Ordered By Its Leader; Those Who Do Not Comply Will Be Expelled
Comments: 24 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Web/Tech
The Williamsburg Satmar Rebbe Rabbi Zalman Leib Teitelbaum has ordered immediate and complete compliance with new Internet and cellphone bans. Those hasidim who do not comply will be excommunicated from Satmar and their children will be expelled from Satmar schools....

June 4, 2013: Video: Satmar Anti-Internet Rally In Brooklyn
Comments: 34 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Web/Tech
Here's a brief video of Satmar's anti-Internet rally which took place in Brooklyn Sunday. Related articles "Bankrupt" Satmar Scammer And Federal Cooperating Witness Moses "Mark" Stern Rents Private Island For Posh 2 Week Vacation Haredi Soldiers Receive Death Threats From...

June 3, 2013: New Bobov Bans And Legal Maneuvering
Comments: 11 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Turf Disputes
Bobov 48 bans baby carriages on Shabbat because it holds the the Brooklyn eruv is not kosher, Bobov 45 bans smartphones, and Bobov Monsey's attempt to trademark the name Bobov in Canada to keep competing Bobov groups from using it...

June 2, 2013: Haredi Rabbis Ban Haredi Shopping Center
Comments: 12 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
Haredi rabbis in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem have banned a local haredi-owned shopping center because 'immodestly clad' non-haredim shop there. The rabbis say they had an agreement with the shopping center made before it opened that in exchange for...

June 2, 2013: Child Allegedly Banned From Sefardi Haredi Preschool Because Father Serves In IDF
Comments: 5 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Israel , Religion , Sefardim
The mother of a Sefardi haredi child claims a Sefrdi haredi kindergarten in her town refused to admit the child because her husband serves in Israel's military. Yeshiva World reports: The mother of an Ofakim child told Channel 2 News...

June 2, 2013: The Chabad-Lubavitch Hasid Who Became A Christian And Served As The Tzar's Chief Censor For Jewish Texts
Comments: 10 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Chabad , Chabad & Christianity , Chabad History , Haredim
A Chabad-Lubavitch hasid converted to Christianity out of desperation and became the Tzar's chief censor of Jewish texts and newspapers while still maintaining his Jewish identity. The 5th Lubavitcher Rebbe Sholom Dov Ber Schneersohn, known as the Rashab Originally published...

May 27, 2013: We Search The Internet So You Don't Have To – All Our Computers Are Filtered
Comments: 10 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Web/Tech
Haredi Web search and shopping company offers to search the Web for haredim, pay their bills, shop for them, all online. And do not worry, rabbis – all their computers are filtered. Related articles Haredim In Israel To Launch A...

May 23, 2013: Haredi Activists Try To Ban Commercial Air Travel
Comments: 20 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Women & Judaism
Do not travel on commercial airplanes because of the 'immodestly' dressed passengers and crew, and because of the 'immodest' movies, an ad placed by haredi kanoim (activists) says. [Hat Tip: Burich.] Related articles Haredi Modesty Squad Bans Men's Tight-Fitting Pants...

May 21, 2013: Belzer Rebbe Bans Hasidim From Talking To Media
Comments: 10 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Israel
The family of the Belzer Rebbe is having a large wedding today, and the rebbe has banned all hasidim from speaking to the media regarding it or related issues. The official proclamation of the ban notes that the often outrageous...

May 10, 2013: Video: Haredi Anti-Internet Rally In Brooklyn
Comments: 27 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Web/Tech
Last night's anti-Internet rally in Borough Park was a uniform sea of black and white, and while railing against the Internet is a popular haredi rabbi pastime, so far no haredi communities have held an anti-child-sex-abuse rally or an anti-fraud-and-theft...

May 9, 2013: Hasidim Allegedly Illegally Bar Blacks And Hispanics From Brooklyn Housing
Comments: 24 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Crime, etc. , Haredim
"There were those who said that we were only speculating about what would happen with the city's rezoning but this is just proof that unless further action is taken this is going to happen over and over again," said Marty...

May 3, 2013: A Rebuke To Israel's Racist Rabbis And Politicians
Comments: 11 | Categories: Bans & Censorship
"Since the rabbis [of old] were speaking of a situation like today, when the majority of Israel’s residents are Jews, this discussion refers to a minority group of non-Jewish residents. We may allow them residence here as long as they...

April 23, 2013: Bobov 48 Yeshiva Bans Woody Allen's Eyeglasses Because They're "Too Goyish"
Comments: 53 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim
A hasidic yeshiva in Borough Park has, in effect, banned Woody Allen's eyeglasses because they are, in the yeshiva's words, "too goyish." I don't speak Yiddish, but the source who sent this to me claims that Bobov 48 has banned...

April 23, 2013: Flatbush Yeshivas Ban Students From Avenues J & M
Comments: 54 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim
Yeshivas and seminaries in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn have banned all of their students from going to Avenues J & M on Saturday nights. Originally posted at 11:23 pm CDT 4-2202013

March 28, 2013: Haredi Newspaper Censors Women’s Faces From Iconic Photo Of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Comments: 37 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
“We honor the memory of the martyrs of the Holocaust, and unlike [you in the secular press] - respect our readers and bring them only what they need and want to see." Originally published at 8:32 pm CDT 3-27-2013 The...

March 22, 2013: OU: "The Chassidish and Chareidi World: An Unsustainable Economy And The Onslaught Of Self-Hating Jew-Bloggers
Comments: 42 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , MO & Chardal
Steven Savitsky is a former president of the Orthodox Union. Yesterday, he interviewed his close friend, Ami Magazine's editor and publisher Rabbi Yitzchok Frankfurter, who Savitsky says he respects greatly, for his regular OU.org podcast. The title? "The Chassidish and...

March 15, 2013: Fearing Leaven, Haredim Get State To Ban Lake Kinneret Water During Passover
Comments: 48 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Israel
The pumping of water from Lake Kinneret will be suspended at the end of next week because haredim fear that it could contain hametz, leaven, which is forbidden for consumption of during the upcoming Passover holiday. The Hazon Ish, Rabbi...

February 28, 2013: Orthodox Women's College Attacks Child Sex Abuse Victim For Publicizing Abuse
Comments: 70 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Crime, etc. , MO & Chardal , Pedophilia & Related Crimes , Women & Judaism
“I received an anonymous phone call last night with a message from one of your "friends" on Facebook, who expressed great consternation and concern that you have chosen to publicize to "friends" (regardless of their age, sincerity and level of...

February 25, 2013: Queen Esther Banned
Comments: 12 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Women & Judaism
After being criticized in previous years for blurring out the faces of little girls in toy store Purim costume ads for "modesty reasons” normative halakha would seem to reject, this year some toy stores owned by or catering to haredim...

February 7, 2013: Video Censored: Chabad Rabbi On Shark Tank
Comments: 17 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Chabad , Haredim , Women & Judaism
Moshe Weiss, a Chabad rabbi from St. Paul, Minnesota, was on Shark Tank recently pitching a product he designed for the iPad. Here's the video – but with a special haredi twist. What twist? If you look closely, you'll see...

February 3, 2013: British Hamodia Reprints Anti-Israel Cartoon But Blurs Out Women's Faces
Comments: 50 | Categories: Antisemitism , Bans & Censorship , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
That's right. Hamodia felt the need to blur out the faces of dying Arab women in a cartoon because in the mid of haredim showing those anguished faces – or the faces and bodies of any women – would not...

February 3, 2013: Agudath Israel Of America Plans To Enhance Newsletter To Deliver "News" To Haredi Followers – And Uses The Banned Internet To Do It
Comments: 14 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Web/Tech
Agudath Israel of America, the large haredi umbrella organization known for opposing things like Internet use, has a survey posted on the Internet now. It asks members to explain their news-reading habits in order to better prepare Agudah for its...

January 16, 2013: Haredim Urge Math Ban, Part 2: The Vilna Gaon Wrote A Book On Math
Comments: 22 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Israel
Ashkenazi haredim attacked the government again this week for trying to force them to teach their children foreign "Greek mathematics," thereby causing haredi children to learn less Jewish Torah. The attack is on the math itself, not just on teaching...

January 15, 2013: Haredim Advocate Banning Math
Comments: 56 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Israel , Religion
"'EUCLID - Not, it's not the name of a medicine. It's the Greek mathematics that (the Zionists want) your son to learn instead of learning Mishnayos.' It proceeds to detail how it is important for your children to learn good...

January 7, 2013: Mea Shearim Anti-Internet Rally Fizzles
Comments: 11 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Web/Tech
"Perhaps due to the late hour on the short erev shabbos or due to other factors, the number of participants was limited to a few avreichim and children, who carried signs 'The Shechina is not driven out – Here there...

December 30, 2012: Secular Group Seeks Ban For Shas Smartphone App
Comments: 4 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim , Web/Tech
Despite the haredi ban on smartphone use, the Sefardi haredi Shas Party – which draws a significant number of votes from traditional non-haredi Sefardi voters – has released a free Android smartphone app, Maran Shlita, which allows users to virtually...

December 28, 2012: Video: Agudah Head Attacks Bloggers At Opening Of Agudah Convention
Comments: 29 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Crime, etc. , Haredim
The great threats to the haredi world apparently are the media and bloggers which the haredi world "suffer[s] from," Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, the Novominsker Rebbe, Agudath Israel of America's most senior rabbi, said at the today's opening of the group's...

December 27, 2012: Chief Rabbis Protest “Blasphemous” Art, Threaten To Find Ways To Close Gallery
Comments: 16 | Categories: Art , Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Israel
"This shows contempt for holy writings that [according to Jewish law] must be buried in a genizah. I hope God-fearing people will not buy these displays for art, but to bring them to genizah facilities for burial that they deserve....

December 26, 2012: Agudah Convention To Deal With 'Important' Issues Of The Day: Internet, Heretic Bloggers, Preserving Penis Sucking Ritual
Comments: 19 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Circumcision , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Web/Tech
The theme of this year's Agudah convention is, "our responsibilities to one another in times of challenge." But judging from Agudah's convention program, these "responsibilities" apparently do not include responsibilities to sexually abused children, agunot, beaten wives and children, or...

December 18, 2012: Haredi Children Protest Internet In Jerusalem
Comments: 18 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Israel , Web/Tech
A group of haredi children in Jerusalem used their lunch break yesterday to stage a small protest march against the evil Internet. [Hat Tip: Burich / Ladaat.info.]

December 7, 2012: Williamsburg Hasidim Attack Cancer Charity, Causing Ban
Comments: 12 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Web/Tech
Hasidim in Williamsburg posted and circulated a letter Wednesday calling on hasidim to call RCCS and demand to know why RCCS is providing "entertainment" and "singers" at its live charity auction held Thursday, causing people to watch on the "dirty...

December 2, 2012: Leading Haredi Rabbis Call On Schools To Ban Kids Whose Parents Have Internet
Comments: 28 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Web/Tech
Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi Wosner issued a public ruling today calling on all haredi schools to ban students whose parents have Internet access. Wosner is the leading hasidic posek, authority on Jewish law. Underneath Wosner's signature is the signature of Rabbi...

November 7, 2012: Beit Shemesh Mehadrin Bus Rules
Comments: 20 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Israel , Web/Tech , Women & Judaism
New rules from haredi modesty police tell haredim how they must behave while riding on Israel’s publicly funded gender segregated mehadrin buses. Monitors from the haredi modesty police will now be on the buses monitoring conduct. No iPhones or smartphones...

October 25, 2012: Haredi Magazine Compares Resisting Smartphone Use To Surviving The Holocaust
Comments: 45 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Web/Tech
A graphic in the haredi Yiddish language magazine Shtralen, which is distributed in haredi communities in New York, compares stopping smartphone use to other tests haredim have had to overcome: closing businesses on Shabbat and the Holocaust. The Hebrew language...

October 20, 2012: Video: We Ban Smartphones So They Can Keep Jews Living In Ghettos, Rabbi Says
Comments: 32 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Israel , Web/Tech
Why are haredi rabbis banning smartphones and unfiltered Internet? Why, to keep Jews living in ghettos, one of the haredi rabbis behind the move says.

October 13, 2012: Yemenite "Mega Church" Kiruv Rabbi And Anti-Technology Campaigner Caught Using iPhone
Comments: 35 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Sefardim , Web/Tech
Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak photographed using an iPhone on Hol Hamoed Sukkot – but he claims that he has an excuse. Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak was photographed using an iPhone on Hol Hamoed Sukkot, but his staff says the...

October 11, 2012: Video: Haredi Simchat Torah Smartphone Destruction
Comments: 21 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim , Web/Tech
Destroy the 'avodah zara,' idol worship by destroying your smartphone Sefardi haredi rabbi urges. Rabbi Moshe Tzadaka, rosh yeshiva of Porat Yosef in Jerusalem, convinces a reveler to break his smartphone during 'Simchat Torah' hakafot sheinit on Monday night: Related...

October 10, 2012: Haredi Rabbis Wage Anti-Smartphone War On Simchat Torah
Comments: 15 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Israel , Sefardim , Web/Tech
Rabbi orders follower to smash smartphone, telling the man that doing so is a "kiddush Hashem," and that it is also a fulfillment of the biblical verse, "Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones." (Deuteronomy 7:5) Haredi Rabbis Wage...

October 4, 2012: In Response To Haredi Vandalism And Violence, Egged To Stop All Bus Ads In Jerusalem
Comments: 17 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
"Egged told us, ‘Our policy is that you can be right, or you can be smart.’… As you know, it’s not the first time that violence has gotten results. There are many situations in the world that have nothing to...

September 24, 2012: Israelis Killed In Car Accident With Non-Kosher Animal – Which Haredi Paper Refuses To Name
Comments: 56 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Israel , Media & Media Criticism
Two Israelis were killed when the car they were in struck a wild animal on a West Bank road. A haredi paper reported the accident – but would not name the animal, allegedly because it is not kosher. Jameel reports...

September 23, 2012: Burn iPhones, Haredi Rabbi Rules
Comments: 56 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Israel , Web/Tech
A senior haredi rabbi has ruled that not only it is forbidden to own an iPhone, it is forbidden to sell or give one to a non-Jew. There, the rabbi says, you must burn them. Updated at 7:20 pm CDT...

September 14, 2012: Rabbi Smashes iPhone, Rants Against Those "Abominations" And "Vile Villains" Who Own One
Comments: 56 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Israel , Web/Tech
“A religious person who owns this impure device is an abomination and a disgusting, vile villain.” Rabbi Smashes iPhone, Rants Against Those Who Own One Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com In a synagogue in the Bnei Brak neighborhood of Pardes Katz...

September 12, 2012: Bais Rochel & Monsey Rabbinic Va'ad Internet Questionnaire
Comments: 36 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Web/Tech
Rabbi Moshe Green's va'ad and Bais Rochel School for Girls ask detailed, intrusive questions of parents and demand answers.

September 6, 2012: Thousands Of London Haredim Attend Anti-Internet Gathering
Comments: 61 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Web/Tech
"Advice provided by a Charedi technology company showed how parents could protect their children by keeping computers and other devices locked in cupboards or by employing internet filtering and monitoring systems. This firm will even intercept emails — with your...

September 4, 2012: Bais Yaakov Of Ramapo Internet Standards
Comments: 32 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Web/Tech
The rules on Internet usage for students even off school grounds, are sent to parents, who must sign a pledge to follow them. Here it is as a PDF file: Download Bais Yaakov of Ramapo Internet Standards Document 9-2012

August 30, 2012: Haredi Students To Get Tablet Computers, Mobile Devices
Comments: 13 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Israel , Web/Tech
Two haredi school networks, Ma'ayan HaChinuch HaTorani and the Shuvo, have agreed to join the technology program, which is sponsored by Israel’s Ministry of Education. Haredi Students To Get Tablet Computers, Mobile Devices Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com For the first...

August 29, 2012: Interior Ministry Cuts Funds To Ashkenazi Haredi Schools That Will Not Admit Sefardim
Comments: 17 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Bigotry & Racism , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Sefardim
380 Sefardi girls are blocked from attending school. "The only sin of these girls is that they were not born with the right color.” Interior Minister Eli Yishai Interior Ministry Cuts Funds To Ashkenazi Haredi Schools That Will Not Admit...

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