This is the video description from the youtube page with some appropriate translations.
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Seminary Machane Yisrael is a seminary for newly religious Jews in the Beit Yisrael section of Jerusalem near the Mir Seminary. The head rabbi is opposed to the use of computers, and therefore even the seminary office uses none. Here we can see one of the many computer smashing ceremonies held at the seminary with a brief introduction by the head rabbi, Rabbi Findler who explained how in this particular instance, the computer was used for purposes of earning a livelihood by the owner until he decided to make the move and dispose of his laptop. This is an exercise carried out by trained professionals, please don't try this at home but if you do please wear safety goggles!
I did that to an old Dell laptop once. The backplate with the Dell logo on it still resides right here in my room as a reminder to the suckage that is Dell.
x_x .... First it's books, now it's computers. What's the nest thing gonna be? Powerplants? D=
For the record, I've never heard of Jewish bookburning.
On the other hand, crazy fundamentalists are all for avoiding technology they don't understand simply because they have mental associations between it and 'corrupting influences'.
Israel maintains three types of state school: secular schools with very high science standards following in the best of Jewish scholarly tradition, those that teach religion with science, and the type for the ultra-orthodox that foster freakishly fanatical ignorance and teach no science whatsoever.
It's a delicate balance that is now in peril, because the chief "scientist" in the educational ministry Gavriel Avital has revealed himself to be a raving lunatic.
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If textbooks state explicitly that human beings' origins are to be found with monkeys, I would want students to pursue and grapple with other opinions. There are many people who don't believe the evolutionary account is correct.
There are those for whom evolution is a religion and are unwilling to hear about anything else. Part of my responsibility, in light of my position with the Education Ministry, is to examine textbooks and curricula. If they keep writing in textbooks that the Earth is growing warmer because of carbon dioxide emissions, I'll insist that isn't the case.
The chorus of outrage among Israelis in possession of brain cells is growing to deafening levels.