Locked in Your Home, The Internet Becomes Everything

We all know of the dangers of the Internet. It's tearing apart the frum world. Imagine if in 1970, you were told that you couldn't deal with your bank unless you had a TV in your house. That's the Internet today.

So what to do? I don't know, but I do know that the challenges are far worse for olim in Israel. Here's why. If you come here without knowing Hebrew, you are likely to get a job -- if you can get one --  online working at home and probably with American hours. This means your kids will see you on the Internet all day long. And they'll want to be on it too. How many times can you say no to an activity that you are doing? 

Oh you're working. They don't know the difference. And you'll check the news. You'll shop, because computer jobs are boring as you sit there all day long working by yourself.

And then there's the over-the-top response to COVID where so-called Charedi schools forced children to be on the Internet in response to school lockdowns by the over-the-top government. Kids who you had kept from the Internet despite your online job are now on Zoom staring at their school mates. Just as marijuana is an entry drug into the harder stuff, school via Zoom brought thousands of frum kids onto the Internet. Thanks principals.

There's another problem with Israel that ties into this. You live in an apartment without a yard of your own. Your kids try to play in the parking lot, but they get bullied. The parents of those kids don't care. I have dealt with this. I told the parents, can you at least come outside to see what's going on? Answer no. You can't grasp how much people over here just really don't care about anything or anyone. It's appalling.  That their kids are bullies doesn't seem to bother them at all because the culture is all about aggression and striking first at your enemies and everyone is the enemy.

So the kids stay inside and want to go online. So much for those chugs. So much for their being more independent in Israel. 

Once again, we return to the aliyah salespeople, aka liars, who told you of the wonders of those chugs and independence for children. It's effectively nothing. The Internet becomes everything. And your religious observance continues to go out the window.



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