Edited/Distributed by HURINet - The Human Rights Information Network --------------------------------------------------------------------- ## author : msanews@msanews.mynet.net ## date : 13.01.00 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Organization: Jam`iyyat Ihyaa Minhaj as-Sunnah (JIMAS) Email: <mail@jimas.demon.co.uk> To: msanews@msanews.mynet.net Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 02:44:26 +0000 Title: Internet use ************************************************************ * * * Ultra-Orthodox rabbis ban Internet use * * * ************************************************************ http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20000109_1068.html WIRE:01/09/2000 20:34:00 ET JERUSALEM (AP) _ Leading ultra-Orthodox Jewish rabbis have banned their followers from using the Internet out of concern that Web links may lead them into the profane. The ban was initiated by leaders of the influential Belz Hasidic sect in October, and in recent weeks has been endorsed by the leader of virtually every ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect. "The rabbis met recently and started off with the proposition that they ban computers," Yaakov Eichler, a journalist at the ultra-Orthodox Hamahaneh Haharedi weekly, said Sunday. His paper is one of several that published notices of the ban late last week. That was going too far, the rabbis decided _ computers have proved valuable in teaching the Bible and in running businesses. But the Internet, with its proliferation of links to pornography sites, was ruled out of bounds. The ruling would presumably affect most of Israel's more than half-million ultra-Orthodox Jews... ---------------------------------- Send mail for the 'huridocs-tech' list to 'huridocs-tech@hrea.org'. Mail administrative requests to 'majordomo@hrea.org'. For additional assistance, send mail to: 'owner-huridocs-tech@hrea.org'. Archives of previous messages posted to the list can be found at: http://www.hrea.org/lists/huridocs-tech/markup/maillist.html
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