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Military Rabbinate hit by 'porn scandal'
Yoav Zitun
Published: 09.10.12, 14:55
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1. What an unnecessary fuss about nothing
Ian ,   Raanana Israel   (10.09.12)
Sounds like narrow-minded hypocrisy blown out of all natural proportion
2. Rabbis!
Reality ,   Haifa   (10.09.12)
You mean they are ordinary people, too? Tempest in a teacup.
3. In porn we trust
ramallah   (10.09.12)
HhHhH Yes these are the chosen people . The IDF very ready for every thing.
4. SEX STRONGER THAN G-D
(10.09.12)
5. COME ON SARAH...............................
MAHMOOD ,   LONDON-UK   (10.09.12)
You have lot to look after,don't you?
6. Thou shalt not covet porn stars and pretend to be holy
roger ,   zurich switzerland   (10.09.12)
7. The only treatment for this ailment
Raptor   (10.09.12)
is to BAN ALL FEMALES FROM LIVING,BREATHING AND EXISTING.
8. The most moral army in the world!
Gregg ,   Haifa IL   (10.09.12)
9. It looks like the rabbis running the show in IDF too ;) ,...
snag ,   US   (10.09.12)
10. A search of his hard drive
BEN JABO (MACHAL) ,   ISRAEL   (10.09.12)
will prove it he did or didn't, easy as that
11. Studies show 80% of the hits on the Internet are to porno
Rivkah   (10.09.12)
graphic sites, so the Internet is a great danger to the old paths where is the good way of the Lord.
12. So, the "frumme" are human after all! Good news!
tom ,   tel aviv   (10.09.12)
13. OMG - a young man surfing porn? in the army? Well I never
miki ,   tampa   (10.09.12)
14. I know what the proof is
Sheik Rattle & Roll ,   USA   (10.09.12)
He got some cream samples from his keyboard.
15. time to seperate state from religion
David ,   Haifa, Israel   (10.09.12)
Just another example of their so called religious morality, as if its not enough they go around flaunting this life style.
16. ain opitropus l'aryus
Larry ,   Los Angeles   (10.09.12)
which basically means, no one is free from their yetzer hara, even the big boys.
17. Shameful?
Paul ,   Jerusalem   (10.09.12)
Yet, when you consider that Leftists who fought hard for gay rights, and now are trying to figure out how to lower the legal age for sex, against the crime of a Rabbi who looks at pixel images, the Rabbi will always be made into the greater criminal.
18. HYPOCRITS !
barbara ,   Haifa Israel   (10.09.12)
19. Media will publish anything that is negative of the
Shalom ,   Israel   (10.09.12)
Religious. And always with each thing they don't hestiate to put the classification of ''religious'' or ''haredi'' before it. Why doesn't the media does the same with seculars? I read about a secular man, murdering his ex-wife a few days ago. Today there is an article of a secular man involved in a shooting. Or what about the pedophilia ring they busted last? The suspects involved were seculars ofcourse, but when it happens to them, they just post about a ''man'' but when a religious does something ( even something small like this ''porn'' incident ) its directly viewable in the headlines. It's like there is some sort of urge in the secular community to always make it known when its religious people doing something wrong. And a new kind of antisemitism is breeding in Israel...
20. Filters?
Sherlock Holmes ,   London England   (10.10.12)
Shouldn't internet on a military base be required to have filters to make it difficult to access porn? The various worldwide Rabbinical assemblies against the Internet have requested those who have Internet to install filters to eliminate as much improper material as possible.
21. #19 Shalom - very well said!
Mark   (10.10.12)
22. IDF and its rabbis are a joke
Ephraim ,   Tapuah   (10.10.12)
23. it is not about porn
peakman ,   brooklyn   (10.10.12)
19. Media will publish anything that is negative of the Religious. And always with each thing they don't hestiate to put the classification of ''religious'' or ''haredi'' before it. no, it is about the cover up and trying to punish to accuser and protect either the commander or rabbinate
24. To deny one's sexuality leads to all sorts of problems.
Josh   (10.10.12)
The guys are only human.
25. #19 Shalom - Because!
Ben ,   Chutzlaaretz   (10.10.12)
Though you may be right that some may take some extra "pleasure" in pointing out any issues with the Religious, this isn't truly bias.The Haredi or even just the observant are held to a higher behavioral standard. In a very odd and twisted way it is a sign of respect. Just like we are all shocked when a teacher/policeman/minister commits a crime (OK minister not so much a shock anymore) there is a shock value when the Haredi and Religious are found to be human too. This is the same reason we as a nation get singled out whenever we do something wrong. Face it, it is a good thing when we are held to a higher standard!
26. The difference is secular don't claim a higher morality
Alter ,   Michigan, USA   (10.10.12)
The religious do. If they claim it, they should live up to it.
27. He who smelt it dealt it...
(10.10.12)
Really sick of the negativity coming from the anti religious left controlling the media. It's one thing to not be religious or disagree, but incessantant rabble rousing is another. I'm sick of articles excoriating Judiasm daily. And really who gives a big .... about YOUR hateful agenda. If you hate haredim then go spit on them yourself instead of writing anonymous articles to manipulate the public. I don't have the energy for YOUR infantile complexes. I don't have the energy to waste on feelings of anger against the religious BEACAUSE I read another article today of the leftist incitement. You people make Israel a joke as a Jewish nation, a freak among the nations based on a history of a national people. Really just thinking to myself the hell with the whole Israel, because as much as you people want the whole country to feel like the haredim are the garbage, your articles just show me that there's plenty of garbage among the haredim AND the left, which is an endless source of festering self hatred. Yours truly, ex-oleh chadash. Ahhh just going to sit back and enjoy life in america where no one is trying to make me angry at people who have nothing to do with me, and the people are polite, and shopping is cheap, and houses are big.......... lahitraot. I hope you all kill each other.
28. No. 27
NYC Girl   (10.10.12)
Good luck if you think nobody in America is trying to make you angry. I don't even have high blood pressure, yet virtually every day there's some shithead who makes me feel like I'm going to have a stroke. All you have to do is turn on the news if you don't believe it. And as far as the cheap shopping is concerned, the prices of everything are going up by the day while our economy continues to hurtle headlong down the crapper. And while maybe the prices of houses have been coming down, see what it feels like when you find the house you bought at the height of the real estate boom may now be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars less than you paid for it. By the way....your vituperative comment that you hope Israelis all kill themselves, says more about you than it does about them.....especially because while you rail against all those Israelis who have no use for religion, you're the one with the vcious, hypocritical attitude.
29. Number 15 Separation of church and state
Akiva ,   NYC   (10.10.12)
In the American armed forces there are chaplains for Catholics, Protestants and Jews, and possibly Muslims -- even with a separation of Church and State.
30. #19 Shalom - well if you are going to preach
Haim ,   TA   (10.11.12)
If they are going to stand on their soap boxes preaching " i am hollier than thou" at least try and behave like a decent human being and practice what you preach. I think "Hypocracy" would sum up your posting best.
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