IP: "1,000 times more dangerous than television"

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

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Saturday 8 January 2000

Internet threat to Israel, say rabbis
By Alan Philps in Jerusalem

  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".

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