Ultra-orthodox Jews write guidelines for the Internet

Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attended a rally Sunday at the New York Mets' stadium on the dangers of the Internet and how to use modern technology in a religiously responsible way.

Women were not permitted to attend the meeting at Citi Field in Queens. However, it was broadcast live to audiences of women in schools and event halls in ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods. The event garnered so much interest that organizers rented the nearby Arthur Ashe Stadium for the overflow crowd.

Eytan Kobre, a lawyer who is the spokesman for the event's organizers, said the rally's purpose was not to ban the Internet but to learn how to harness it.

"There is a very significant downside to the Internet," he said. "It does pose a challenge to us in various aspects of our lives."

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Terry Ferebee

Maybe a downsize is informing the public that their religion was stolen from the Egyptians.
- aldotoo
  
  Pretty ignorant comment. What part of their religion are you referring to?
msjallen

Maybe their leaders are afraid that they will find out the truth about Jesus Christ being their Messiah. I wonder if they also explained how 0 is against Israel and not to vote for him.
- http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
  
  That has never concerned any rational person.
Chris

Obama is against Israel's abuse of the Palestinians and their property. Nothing to do with the Jewish religion.

Or do Christians believe it is OK to steal people's land and property?
- Deep_Thinker
  
  Apparently they believe confiscation is ok if it fits their moral viewpoint..
  
  But if a liberal does it watch out…
- lambsev11
  
  Israel and the mid-east conflict have everything to do with God and Jesus. Are you a christian Chris?
  - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22306708/Jn6.37.png Despeville
    
    Jesus is God I am sure you meant that and I wanted to tell you that Eskimos have just as much to do with God and His plan than a state of Israel does.
    - lambsev11
      
      A broken clock can be right 2X a day, but it is wrong much more often.
      
      Ezekiel 37:15 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel his companions: 17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become ONE in thine hand. 18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these? 19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand. 20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes. 21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into THEIR OWN LAND: 22 And I will make themONE NATION IN THE LAND UPON THE MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all. 23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God. 24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. 25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever. 26 Moreover I will make A COVENANT of peace with them; it shall be AN EVERLASTING COVENANTwith them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them FOR EVERMORE. 27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them FOR EVERMORE.
      
      Ezekiel 38:14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it? 15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army: 16 And thou shalt come up against MY PEOPLE of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be IN THE LATTER DAYS, and I will bring thee against MY LAND, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
      - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22306708/Jn6.37.png Despeville
        
        Why don't you repair your sensational eschatology then.
      - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
        
        Why don't you?
      - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22306708/Jn6.37.png Despeville
        
        Dodo, you don't even know what you are mumbling about.
      - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
        
        Sure I do. You are a delusional loon. I am asking that loon why you do not repair your sensational eschatology as you asked another to do. It is all part and parcel of your delusion. You have as much concern over these issues as anyone else.
      - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22306708/Jn6.37.png Despeville
        
        Dodo you have no idea what eschatology is in all of its substance. Stay with your mortgages and I hope you do not defraud them as you do most topics here.
      - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
        
        Sorry, but your delusions do not dictate what others know. Your comments are not the mystery you hope for or believe to be true. You truly are Humpty Dumpty.
      - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22306708/Jn6.37.png Despeville
        
        Dodo go back to your comic books. You fit that level.
      - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
        
        I see you are back with the lies and misrepresentations again. Nothing surprising about that either.
      - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22306708/Jn6.37.png Despeville
        
        Dodo there is no lies here apart of yours. The fact is and you confessed it that you were an avid "reader" of comic books and comic genre.
      - lambsev
        
        LOL. Time will tell… !
      - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22306708/Jn6.37.png Despeville
        
        Time has nothing to do with it. The Revelation of God does.
      - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
        
        Time has everything to do with it.
      - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22306708/Jn6.37.png Despeville
        
        With you it does.Deuteronomy 32.35
      - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
        
        Time affects everything. Nothing surprising about that idea.
      - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22306708/Jn6.37.png Despeville
        
        No, time does not effect everything even in the physical universe. In fact time can be affected as in time dilation for example. Of course you do not know that despite your con artist like claims on science which is utterly alien to your schizophrenic view of reality. Having said that time is relative and can be affected in physical reality of course time does not even begin to be a factor in metaphysical reality to which you are oblivious, blind and dead.
    - Evermyrtle
      
      GOD'S PEOPLE:
      Matt. 2:6 And you Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, are not the least among the princes: for out of thee shall come a GOVERNOR, that shall rule my people Israel.
      
      Heb.:8-10, 12,13
      8.For finding fault with them, HE said, Behold, the days come, said the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with he house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
      9. Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued no longer in my covenant, and I regarded them not., said the LORD
      10.For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, said the LORD; I I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a GOD, and they shall be to me a people
      
      12. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more,
      13. In the, HE said, A new covenant, HE hath made, the first old. Now that which decays and waxes old is ready to vanish away
- http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
  
  Chris: Or do Christians believe it is OK to steal people's land and property?
  
  Of course they do. Just read the bible. The Hebrews were always stealing the land of others.
  
  “However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them-the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites as the LORD your God has commanded you. Otherwise they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshipping their gods, and you will sin against the LORD your God” (Deut. 20:16-18).
Chris

Talking of which:-
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/21/israel-v…

Yeh verily Christians support this.
- Deep_Thinker
  
  And what makes Israel so special? It isn't a Christian nation. God has no special place for the country of Israel.
  - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22306708/Jn6.37.png Despeville
    
    Israel is a pagan state actively persecuting Gospel and Christians.
    - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
      
      What country is not a pagan nation, Humpty? Is there one that is not?
      - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22306708/Jn6.37.png Despeville
        
        Nope, there is not which does not change what I said about Israel.
      - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
        
        It makes it humorous, as do all your idiotic rantings.
      - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22306708/Jn6.37.png Despeville
        
        Dodo you are a moron and as such you laugh at everything that you do not understand and that is a substantial and overwhelming amount.
      - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
        
        You have no idea what I know. That is what scares you the most.
      - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22306708/Jn6.37.png Despeville
        
        Hahhahaa your ignorance is rather explicit Dodo.
lambsev11

The best history book ever written is the Bible: study it as God's instructions on life and truth.
- http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
  
  Only if one desires to know fiction as history.
  - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22306708/Jn6.37.png Despeville
    
    You know neither Dodo.
    - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
      
      I know yours is fiction. The stories in the bible are absurd fiction.
    - lambsev11
      
      Thanks to folks like you and Jeff Dixon I'm learning to suffer the ignorant more gladly.
      - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22306708/Jn6.37.png Despeville
        
        I don't think you want to learn anything.
      - lambsev11
        
        I just want this:
        "One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple." Psalm 27:4
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22306708/Jn6.37.png Despeville

Yours is for sure Dodo.
- http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
  
  Which does not change what I just stated.
bighoss

So now we will have a a Kosher Internet! And I still haven't even been able to figure out what makes a pickle Kosher (but I like eating them).

Maybe the pickle was slaughtered by a rabbi?