466 posts categorized "Bans & Censorship"

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, Litigation, 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, Litigation, 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, Litigation, 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: 33 | 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: 14 | 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, Litigation, 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...

August 28, 2012: Israel Gas Receipt: iPhone Delays The Messiah
Comments: 36 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Israel , Web/Tech
Israeli gas receipt reads: "Type of fill: Regular; Type of credit: regular; 400 NIS [about $99]", and then has this note: "It's been 1,944 years since the destruction of our Bais Hamikdash [the holy Temple in Jerusalem destroyed by the...

August 27, 2012: Egged, Cnaan Media Dodge High Court Appeal, Refuse To Run Ads Depicting Women – Again
Comments: 11 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
The bus company that provides public bus service in Israel’s capital will not run ads on its buses that have any pictures or depictions of any human beings – even males or babies. Yerushalmim's ads depicting women in short sleeves...

August 27, 2012: Cartoon Images Of Women No Longer Kosher For Passover?
Comments: 28 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
The iconic, stylized cartoon logo of a modestly dressed woman sprinkling salt has been removed from Salit salt packages sold in some haredi stores. Cartoon Images Of Women No Longer Kosher For Passover? Israel Salt Company Removes Part Of Its...

August 21, 2012: Haredi Mayor To Block Non-Haredi Visits To Archaeological Site In Bid To Prevent Haredim From Hearing “False Opinions”
Comments: 25 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Israel , Torah & Science
Modi'in Ilit's Mayor Yaakov Gutterman told the haredi newspaper Yated Ne’eman last week that the site, which is believed to be an agricultural village from the Second Temple period, "will operate according to the doctrines of our forefathers, according to...

August 21, 2012: Zionist Orthodox Rabbis Launch Their Own Version Of A “Kosher” Smart Phone
Comments: 36 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Israel , MO & Chardal , Web/Tech
Rabbi Avinoam Horowitz, principal of the Kiryat Arba Zionist Orthodox public high school, said that the objective of Telephonetto is to create unanimous opposition by Zionist Orthodox teachers to unfiltered smart phones, which cause the "mutilating the students' souls,” referring...

August 20, 2012: Haredi Rabbis Ban Tight Pants – For Men
Comments: 62 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel
“There is a strict Biblical prohibition against wearing tight clothing like the gentiles, as stated: ‘You shall not follow in their ways.’ Wearing tight pants is forbidden because of that reason.…And those who wear (such garments) are sinful and cause...

August 10, 2012: After Years Of Censorship Caused by Haredi Violence, Women’s Faces To Return To Jerusalem Bus Ads
Comments: 19 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
After years of censorship, women’s faces and even their bodies will be returning to ads placed on public buses in Israel’s capital. Canaan Media, the advertising agency with exclusive rights to place ads on Egged buses in Jerusalem, after years...

August 9, 2012: "The Internet Is Poison"
Comments: 38 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Web/Tech
A sign in Monsey, New York warns haredim to stay away from the Internet. "The Internet is Poison! -- it has already rachmuna litzlon destroyed hundreds of Jewish homes! -- When you take the Internet into your hand, know that...

August 7, 2012: Tangled Web: Haredim And The Internet
Comments: 29 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Media & Media Criticism
NY1 has a new documentary series on haredi and the Internet, focusing on issues of rabbinic censorship, threats of violence, and the covering up of haredi-committed crime by haredi leadership. Here's part 1. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3 is...

August 3, 2012: No Women's Faces
Comments: 38 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Women & Judaism
A small haredi organization in Queens, New York, Torah Anytime, has lots of free classes taught by women for women. But unlike the classes taught by men for men or by men for women, the female teachers' faces are not...

August 3, 2012: Monsey Haredi Weekly Blurs Out 'Immodestly' Dressed Cartoon Figures Of 4-Year-Old-Girls
Comments: 72 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Women & Judaism
Community Connections, a Monsey, New York haredi weekly paper, has blurred out the legs and chest of two cartoon figures depicting 4-year-old girls. The cartoon is part of advertisement for a haredi play group for 2-, 3-, and 4-year-old boys...

July 30, 2012: Monsey Vizhnitzer Rebbe Orders Hasidim To Boycott Siyum HaShas
Comments: 36 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Israel
As the Monsey Vizhniter Rebbe strengthens his ban on Agudath Israel of America's Siyum HaShas ordered because Agudah is allowing two 'Zionist' rabbis to speak there, the Belzer Rebbe also reportedly orders a boycott of the Israel version of the...

July 21, 2012: Right Wing Zionist Orthodox MK Rips Up New Testament, Drawing Condemnation – And Silence
Comments: 32 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Bigotry & Racism , Books , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
While the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee and the head of the Conference of Presidents of Major America Jewish Organizations condemned the public destruction of a New Testament by a prominent Israeli lawmaker, the Jewish Federations of North America...

June 19, 2012: Pashkvil Alert: mp3 Players Are Dangerous And Evil
Comments: 36 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim
Signs posted around the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn warn hasidim that mp3 players are dangerous and evil. [Hat Tip: Heathen Hasid.]

June 15, 2012: Orthodox And Haredi Teen Girls Much More Likely To Visit Internet Porn Sites Than Non-Orthodox Teen Girls, Study Finds
Comments: 51 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics, Public Health , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State , Web/Tech
Orthodox and haredi teen girls are almost two times as likely as secular teens to view Internet porn, a new Bar-Ilan University study has found. Orthodox And Haredi Teen Girls Much More Likely To Visit Internet Porn Sites Than Non-Orthodox...

June 11, 2012: Satmar: You Can't Lead Prayer Services If You Have Unfiltered Internet
Comments: 47 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Web/Tech
The Satmar synagogue in Lakewood, New Jersey forbids men who have unfiltered Internet access from leading prayer services. The Lakewood Scoop's translation: If you don’t have an Internet filter, you can no longer Daven for the Amud at the Lakewood...

June 11, 2012: The Internet Is Bad Because It Can Connect You With Zionists, Satmar Rebbe Says
Comments: 17 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Web/Tech
Satmar Rebbe says the Internet is bad because you can meet Zionists and other evil people online and read their ideas. From Hamodia:

June 6, 2012: Exclusive: Haredi Supermarket Censors Cereal Boxes
Comments: 69 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Women & Judaism
A supermarket in Borough Park, apparently Super 51 on 13TH Avenue, now puts stickers on cereal boxes to cover pictures of women that appear on the boxes.

June 6, 2012: Haredi News Website Censors Female Politician's Picture
Comments: 32 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Women & Judaism
To mark the ten years that have passed since the end of the rescue and recovery operation at the World Trade Center site, New York State Assemblywoman Helene Weinstein joined Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Assemblyman Michael Den Dekker at...

June 5, 2012: Satmar Bicycle Ban
Comments: 105 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim
A Satmar school forbids students from riding bicycles, and tells parents that we warned you before, you didn't listen and allowed your child(ren) to own and ride a bike, and this is your final warning before we expel your child(ren)....

June 5, 2012: New Haredi Internet Rules
Comments: 25 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Israel , Web/Tech
Rules for dealing with the Internet based on the new ruling by Rabbi Shmuel Halevi Wosner, the Shevet HaLevi. First of all, note the politcal aspect to this. In the top poster, released by Rabbi Wosner's assistant, Wosner is called...

June 4, 2012: The Work Of A Sofer Or Schochet Who Has An Unflitered Internet Connection Is Not Kosher, Haredi Rabbi Rules
Comments: 82 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Israel , Kosher Scandal , Web/Tech
Today's Hamodia in Israel reports that a leading haredi halakhic authority, Rabbi Shmuel Halevi Wozner of Bnei Brak, has ruled that the Torahs, tefillin, megillot and mezzuzot written by a sofer (ritual scribe) who has an unfiltered Internet connection are...

June 4, 2012: Satmar Internet Use Questionnaire For Parents
Comments: 55 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Web/Tech
Fess up, Satmar says, or there will be consequences. Here's a translation made by the person who sent this to me: Telephone. Do you have a cellphone, Blackberry, iPhone, Android, etc. ? [ ] Yes [ ] No, if yes...

June 3, 2012: Satmar Internet Rules
Comments: 28 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Web/Tech
If you want your kid(s) to be in Satmar schools, these are the rules you have to follow with regard to Internet use and smart phones. [Hat Tip: Burich.] Update 2:00 AM CDT 6-4-2012 – APC made a quick English...

June 1, 2012: British Haredim To Rally Against The Internet
Comments: 21 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Web/Tech
The date of the rally hasn't been set, and its exact form hasn't been decided, but inspired by the massive haredi anti-Internet London's rally in New York last month, London's haredi community is planning its own public event against the...

May 31, 2012: Haredi Modesty And Anti-Smartphone Posters
Comments: 26 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Israel , Web/Tech , Women & Judaism
Shavuot modesty instructions for both sexes and a cartoon about smartphones, both posted on a Jerusalem street. The pictures were taken today: Cartoon translation from the person who sent the posters to me: Upper row, from right to left. 1...

May 30, 2012: The Latest Haredi Anti-Internet Ban
Comments: 61 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Blogs , Haredim , Web/Tech
A haredi synagogue in Flatbush, Brooklyn has added a new ban to the haredi fight against the Internet. …No coffee, no tea, and no sugar. Seen at a synagogue in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn today: [Hat Tip: HeathenHassid.]

May 30, 2012: Dump Your Smartphones Or Get A New Rebbe
Comments: 53 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Web/Tech
The Satmar Rebbe of Kiryas Yoel has laid down an ultimatum for his hasidim – to rid themselves of their smartphones within a month of look for a new rebbe. Satmar Rebbe’s Ultimatum: Turn in Smartphone or Get Out Yeshiva...

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