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Making the Internet Kosher: Orthodox (HAREDI) Jews and their Approach to the WORLD WIDE WEB

TitleMaking the Internet Kosher: Orthodox (HAREDI) Jews and their Approach to the WORLD WIDE WEB
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2009
AuthorsCejka, M
JournalMasaryk University Journal of Law and Technology
Volume3
Issue1
Start Page99
KeywordsHalakha, Haredim, Judaism, Kosher, Rabbi, religious fundamentalism, Religious law, the Internet, Ultra-Orthodox Jews
Abstract

This article surveys the approach of Orthodox Judaism – especially the Haredi (Ultra-
Orthodox) Judaism – to the Internet. In the introduction we compare the approach
of the Abrahamic religions to the Internet. Then we focus on the Haredi
community (especially in the contemporary State of Israel) and their specific approach
to the Internet. This article argues that the use of the Internet, although officially
banned by many Haredi Rabbis, is in fact tolerated on a pragmatic basis. We
also survey which kind of “protection against secular threads” the Haredim1 use
(filtering software, Holy Shabbat protection). In the last part of this article the role
of the Internet in Israeli religious politics, and by its uses by fundamentalist and
radical Jewish groups, is surveyed

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