Jerusalem – The Rabbinical Committee for Communication Affairs has issued a call demanding that inspectors from the ultra-Orthodox organization Eda Haredit begin monitoring authorized cell phone dealers in Haredi neighborhoods to make sure that only “strictly kosher” cell phones are being sold.
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YNETNEWS.com (http://bit.ly/1QRmQGJ) reports that the call came down following a series of recent events in which Haredi-sector phone dealers have been caught issuing devices that allow Haredi users access to banned features, namely the Internet and cameras.
One such incident resulted in a protest during which the Rebbe of Strykow and a group of followers staged a protest outside a scofflaw cell phone dealer’s store.
Recent street ads have been appeared in Haredi neighborhoods as well, charging that some local cell phone dealers are specifically targeting yeshiva students with the prospect of obtaining phones capable of skirting the rabbinical ban.
AlterG, anxiously awaiting to hear why this non-news story is of timeless importance.
“namely the Internet and cameras.”
A camera Oy vey chazor treif! I am surprised they left out whats app.
Please – the head of edah hareidit is nothing but a treasonous rabble rouser who should be arrested and tossed into jail. He’d never get away with his crap in any other country.
Aren’t there other cell phone stores just minutes away in other neighborhoods?
About time kosher cellphones are enforced in NY too like in Israel.