Is your cellphone kosher?
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Israel's highly traditional Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community is tackling the challenges and opportunities of new communications technologies by offering new religious adaptation to modern technology.
The kosher cellphone is one of the latest results of this trend: it looks like an ordinary cellphone, can make and receive calls, and may have a calculator and alarm clock, but it cannot send or receive text messages, browse the internet or take photos - all activities that could potentially involve behaviour considered "immodest" among Haredis.
For example, SMS capability could lead to the unwitting receipt of mass text messages publicising secular events. It could also be used as a method of illicit communication between male and female teenagers. And all photos of women are forbidden, as is accessing websites with content deemed inappropriate.
The phone's other defining feature is a rabbinical stamp of approval, similar to those seen on kosher food items. All the major Israeli cellphone companies have started providing kosher phones, and even offer cheaper-than-normal packages which only connect with other Haredi numbers.
The kosher cellphone is one of the latest results of this trend: it looks like an ordinary cellphone, can make and receive calls, and may have a calculator and alarm clock, but it cannot send or receive text messages, browse the internet or take photos - all activities that could potentially involve behaviour considered "immodest" among Haredis.
For example, SMS capability could lead to the unwitting receipt of mass text messages publicising secular events. It could also be used as a method of illicit communication between male and female teenagers. And all photos of women are forbidden, as is accessing websites with content deemed inappropriate.
The phone's other defining feature is a rabbinical stamp of approval, similar to those seen on kosher food items. All the major Israeli cellphone companies have started providing kosher phones, and even offer cheaper-than-normal packages which only connect with other Haredi numbers.
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- JanaPokana
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Thats crazy but I good idea for the Modern Day Pharisee. I once saw the Ultra-Orthodox talk about cell phones. One was asked by a reporter how he was using cell phones, if they don't use new technology. And the man explained that they must not follow the trends so they acquire the Cell Phones that many now don't use and are not so advanced
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