While You Were Out

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

As part of the additional-revenue effort, the Mets have a pretty full slate of events planned for CitiField this summer, including an All-Star Weekend Latin-music extravaganza. They're also selling out today... but not for a concert or ballgame.

This afternoon, the terrifyingly-named Jewish orthodox group "Union of Communities for the Purity of the Camp" will be holding a rally against the evils of the internet ("and the damages caused by advanced electronic devices"), according to an article on the internet. The primary targets are what we in the internet biz like to call "The Big Three": Facebook, other social media sites and porn. But what would a cluelessly nonsensical rally be without some intra-group bickering? It seems like some in the Union of Communities for the Purity of the Camp want to advocate for safer internet use while others just want a straight up ban of the internet. The ultra orthodox community has grappled with limiting access to the scary scary boxes of impurity for some time now and will use today's event to rally the troops. And now, I will block quote three paragraphs because it is necessary. In 2005, rabbis in Lakewood doubled down on their campaign against the Internet. Citing the "immoral lures that are present on the Internet," the community banned students enrolled in any of Lakewood's 43 yeshivas from having computers at home. The ban succeeded-to a degree. A year after the ban was instituted, the Lakewood Public Library reported a 40 percent increase in computer use at its branches, fueled mainly by ultra-Orthodox Jews. The edicts continued. In 2009, the Council of Torah Sages focused its wrath on Haredi websites, calling on readers and advertisers to pull support. The websites were accused of being gateways to "the vilest of places" on the Internet, and of spreading "slander, lies, and impurities." In 2011, Haredi leaders in Israel unveiled an ad campaign claiming that the Internet caused, among other things, cancer. Using gematria, which assigns a numeric value to Hebrew letters, rabbis demonstrated that "Internet" and "cancer" were numerically equivalent. The web was also implicated in causing droughts. In January 2011, the council issued its latest ruling: "Internet usage should by all means be avoided in homes and, wherever possible, also in business offices. In any event, children should not be given internet access. For those who must have internet access � it is assur [prohibited] to have internet access without an effective filter." Internet filters, the rabbis' newest salve, will undoubtedly be a primary solution advanced this weekend at Citi Field.

So no Wi-Fi this weekend, I'm guessing?

[Ceetar]

clearly they never had these meetings at Shea, due to the porn room.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

But what would a cluelessly nonsensical rally be without some intra-group bickering? It seems like some in the Union of Communities for the Purity of the Camp want to advocate for safer internet use while others just want a straight up ban of the internet.

"Excuse me. Are you the Judean People's Front?"
"Fuck off! We're the People's Front of Judea!"

[Ceetar]

since men and women cannot be in the same space, the women went across the street to the tennis place....and they live-streamed the event over the internet for them.

[metirish]

I guess this can't be followed on the internet........

[MFS62]

This is interesting, because the Lubuvitch sect of Orthodox Jews have their own web sites and the Rabbi of the local group sends out emails about upcoming events.
I'm on his email list.
Later

[soupcan]

Buncha jackasses.

[Fman99]

What a bunch of jerk offs.

[nymr83]

MFS62 wrote: This is interesting, because the Lubuvitch sect of Orthodox Jews have their own web sites and the Rabbi of the local group sends out emails about upcoming events. I'm on his email list. Later

That's because the Lubavitch (the followers of the late Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, OBM) aren't nut cases as some of the other sects are. My (Lubavitch) rabbi and rebbetzin are even on the impure facebook!