@article {1265, title = {Making the Internet Kosher: Orthodox (HAREDI) Jews and their Approach to the WORLD WIDE WEB}, journal = {Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology}, volume = {3}, year = {2009}, chapter = {99}, abstract = {This article surveys the approach of Orthodox Judaism {\textendash} especially the Haredi (Ultra- Orthodox) Judaism {\textendash} 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 {\textquotedblleft}protection against secular threads{\textquotedblright} 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}, keywords = {Halakha, Haredim, Judaism, Kosher, Rabbi, religious fundamentalism, Religious law, the Internet, Ultra-Orthodox Jews}, url = {https://mujlt.law.muni.cz/storage/1267475339_sb_06-cejka.pdf}, author = {Cejka, M} } @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} }