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Subject: Internet threat to Israel, say rabbis.htm
Date: Sunday, January 09, 2000 2:28 AM
Internet threat to Israel, say rabbis
ISSUE 1688 Saturday 8 January 2000
Internet threat to Israel, say rabbis
By Alan Philps in Jerusalem
Torah Sages ban Internet use [7 Jan '00] - Ha'aretz
Jewish links - Maven Jewish Portal
Orthodox Union [Jewish portal]
ISRAEL'S leading orthodox rabbis have issued a ruling banning the internet from
Jewish
homes, arguing that it is "1,000 times more dangerous than television" and threatens
the survival
of the country.
The ruling, issued by the Council of Torah Sages, is an attempt by the
rabbis to halt the
infiltration of "sin and abomination" from the internet into the homes of the
ultra-orthodox,
whose children have hitherto been shielded from the temptations of the modern world.
The rabbis recalled that they had banned television 30 years ago, and said
that the dangers
from the internet were even greater. They said it "puts the future generations of
Israel in grave
danger in a way that no other threat has since Israel became a nation".
The newspaper of Degel Hatorah, one of the strictest of the religious
parties in Israel, said
the internet was "the world's leading cause of temptation, it incites and encourages
sin and
abomination of the worst kind."
The majority of Israelis, who are secular, will ignore the ruling. But it
is likely to deprive
young members of the ultra-orthodox community - those who wear the black hats and long
coats
of the European ghetto - of a window on the secular world. Religious leaders are
worried about a
growing number of youths who break out of their closed communities in search of a
secular life -
a development that is partly blamed on the arrival of the computer in their homes,
giving them
the chance to join discussion groups, hear forbidden music and read about life outside.
The ruling follows a sharp debate in the ultra-orthodox community about
the role of
computers. Some have seen them as a blessing, enabling men and women to earn money as
computer programmers - a skill that many in these strict communities believe they
excel in
thanks to years of studying the intricacies of Jewish religious texts.
But other rabbis have argued that the computer is a Trojan Horse of
secular filth.
The Torah Sages recommended that those who make a living in computers
should be
allowed to use them only at the work place. Those who do not have rabbinical
permission to use
a computer are called on to delete the web browser, which makes it impossible to surf
the net.
The newspaper Haaretz pointed out that while the most extreme sects banned
all uses of
the internet, even for business, as a "deadly poison which burns souls", there are
many web sites
designed as aids to studying the Torah. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, a former chief rabbi of
Israel, has
his own website.
Earlier this week, a 17-year-old student from Hertfordshire announced
plans to float his
Jewish community web site on the London Stock Exchange. Benjamin Cohen could become a
millionaire with the popular site which includes business news, a dating agency and a
'cyber
rabbi'.
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