@article {1264,
	title = {The Forbidden Fork, the Cell Phone Holocaust, and Other Haredi Encounters with Technology},
	journal = {Contemporary Jewry},
	volume = {29},
	year = {2009},
	chapter = {3},
	abstract = {Haredi Jews valorize tradition and explicitly reject the idea of progress
on ideological grounds. Concomitantly, they are opposed to many innovations and
are highly critical of the destructive potential of modern communication technologies
such as cell phones with Internet capability that serve as pocket-sized portals
between their insular communities and the wider world. In response to this perceived
threat, Haredi authorities have issued bans on the use of certain technologies
and have endorsed the development of acceptable alternatives, such as the so-called
kosher cell phone. And yet, many Haredim, both in the United States and Israel, are
highly sophisticated users and purveyors of these same technologies. This tension
indicates that Haredim have a much more complicated relationship to technology
and to modernity, itself, than their {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}official{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} stance would suggest.},
	keywords = {cell phone, Haredim, Hasidim, Holocaust, internet, Israel, Modernity, technology, Ultra-Orthodox Jews},
	url = {http://www.nabilechchaibi.com/resources/Deutsch.pdf},
	author = {Nathaniel Deutsch}
}
