Saturday, April 07, 2007
Modernity creeping into the haredim's world
The newly opened Kosher Gym in Jerusalem offers prayer books instead of magazines at its juice bar, and bearded men listen to Talmudic interpretations on earphones as they exercise.
In an Internet chat room, messages about Outlook and Microsoft pop up in Yiddish. At upscale kosher restaurants, men in black hats and sidecurls, accompanied by wives in wigs and long dresses, sip fine wines.
If that's one face of the haredim -- "the God-fearing," as Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jews refer to themselves -- another is the young hotheads who torch clothing stores in their neighborhood for selling "immodest" attire and hurl bleach at women who wear it.
From cellphones to Stairmasters, from women's rights to Hebrew slang, the outside world is seeping into the cloistered haredi community and plunging it into a tug-of-war between a tentative embrace of modernity and fierce resistance.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2007/04/07/2003355639
The newly opened Kosher Gym in Jerusalem offers prayer books instead of magazines at its juice bar, and bearded men listen to Talmudic interpretations on earphones as they exercise.
In an Internet chat room, messages about Outlook and Microsoft pop up in Yiddish. At upscale kosher restaurants, men in black hats and sidecurls, accompanied by wives in wigs and long dresses, sip fine wines.
If that's one face of the haredim -- "the God-fearing," as Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jews refer to themselves -- another is the young hotheads who torch clothing stores in their neighborhood for selling "immodest" attire and hurl bleach at women who wear it.
From cellphones to Stairmasters, from women's rights to Hebrew slang, the outside world is seeping into the cloistered haredi community and plunging it into a tug-of-war between a tentative embrace of modernity and fierce resistance.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2007/04/07/2003355639
Comments:
The best link you could find for an AP story is the Tapei Times?
Where did you get that ugly picture from?
Where did you get that ugly picture from?
Comment Credit ---This article posted by 
: April 07, 2007 10:31 PM
: April 07, 2007 10:31 PM
This is the most virulently anti-semetic article I've seen in the goyisha press for as long as i can remember. It's bad even for the AP.
Comment Credit ---This article posted by : April 08, 2007 12:22 AM
: April 08, 2007 12:22 AM
Get real! Unfortunately, that's what chareidiism is becoming.
Comment Credit ---This article posted by : April 08, 2007 5:17 AM
: April 08, 2007 5:17 AM
I think I know a great Shidduch for him. Does anyone know if he's on the market?
Comment Credit ---This article posted by : April 08, 2007 11:18 AM
: April 08, 2007 11:18 AM
We girl wish more buchrim here in NY would have muscles like the buchrim in Yerushalaim.
Comment Credit ---This article posted by : April 08, 2007 11:20 AM
: April 08, 2007 11:20 AM
to Anon 11.20..
do not worry, the bucherim here in New York have bigger muscles then those in Yerushulaim, I know it for a fact, you can find them in the gyms here in Brooklyn...
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do not worry, the bucherim here in New York have bigger muscles then those in Yerushulaim, I know it for a fact, you can find them in the gyms here in Brooklyn...
Comment Credit ---This article posted by : November 06, 2007 12:40 AM
: November 06, 2007 12:40 AM
