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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Without Comment

Below is a quote from a Cross-Currents piece by Rabbi Yaakov Menken on kiruv:

While within any group you will find people with outlandish ideas, it is very clear that the Orthodox leadership would have none of it. Ahavas Yisrael, love of all Jews, is the order of the day. If you can, in fact, find someone who thinks otherwise, he or she is merely evidence that the charedim don’t follow their leaders as readily as the media insists we do.

This was brought home by an email and personal account that both came to me today.
The email arrived from a writer for HaModia, which is—as you probably know—as “ultra” Orthodox as a journal can be. By contrast to the Yated Ne’eman, HaModia has stronger ties to the Chassidic community, which should make it still more insular. Yet this writer’s “beat” is the world of Kiruv. To be sure, he can’t cover Project Genesis (as that would entail conceding that the Internet has a positive side), but he still talks about the world of Jewish outreach on a weekly basis.

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Yideoz

Last October I posted on our reliance on the immodest 'Youtube' for haimishe videos since the prohibition of the internet discouraged us from making our own 'Youtube'.

Well, two enterprising Jews, Jonathan and Bridgette Raven (probably not from the communities most 'concerned' with tznius) have made a 'kosher' video sharing site called Yideoz.

Kol Hakovod!

Let's support them.

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Worth Noting

Rabbi Aharon H. Fried has an incisive 30 page article on secular education in our community here.

And Torahweb has a video from a frum Rockland County Sheriff's Department cyber officer here. (Warning: the preceding video is graphic, and primarily relevant to parents of children over 10 years old.)

Monday, March 12, 2007

Worth Pondering

3 years and one day ago, Spain was attacked immediately before an election by Islamic terror, subsequently deciding to elect a government which immediately pulled out of Iraq. That should have solved their problem, right?

"Spanish officials and experts say the country is potentially in more danger now than ever before as extremist groups reorganize just beyond Spain's southern coast.
...senior officials say radicals in Morocco and other parts of northern Africa, many with ties to Spain, increasingly take their cues from Al Qaeda. . . .
Maghreb-based networks remain the most serious threat to Spain in terms of Islamic extremism, law enforcement officials said this week. They said militants had begun to set up a centralized command and a string of training camps in southern Algeria and northern Mali, and have launched recruiting efforts targeting their brethren who live in Spain.
"We are seeing the Al Qaeda-ization of the Maghreb militants, and that is the evolution that most worries us," a senior counter-terrorism official in the Spanish Interior Ministry said in an interview.


So, despite the bungling of the war, and the attractiveness of pulling out, it sort of confirms the logic of 'fight them there, not here', huh?

Hat tip: James Taranto

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Hope This Never Sounds Familiar

In Chaotic Gaza, the Internet Is a Target - (Bloomberg/Chicago Daily Herald)
Soon after a firebomb exploded at 3 a.m. and destroyed four computers in the Al-Shawa Online Internet Cafe in Gaza, owner Alaa al-Shawa clicked onto his e-mail at an undamaged machine.
The first message was from the bombers, explaining that establishments such as his were keeping Muslims away from prayer and providing pornography. That's why it was hit.
"This just shows how confused these fanatics are," said Al-Shawa, 27. "Even they use the Internet to circulate their statements."
About 45 Internet outlets have been bombed since Dec. 1, according to Gaza police.

orthodox jews and the internet.