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World Cup Soccer: Another Thing the Haredi Media Can’t Find Pleasure In

The World Cup is a time for soccer fans, and people who pretend to be soccer fans, to watch the most popular game on Earth, played on it’s biggest stage.  The only people who don’t care?  The fun loving haredi … Read More

By / June 23, 2010

The World Cup is a time for soccer fans, and people who pretend to be soccer fans, to watch the most popular game on Earth, played on it’s biggest stage.  The only people who don’t care?  The fun loving haredi media of Israel.

According to YNet: 

Rabbi Moshe Grylak, editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem-based haredi newspaper Mispacha, told Ynet that the World Cup will not be mentioned in his newspaper, except, perhaps, in opinion pieces criticizing the tournament and the waste of time they embody.

 

This is proof once again that nobody knows how to party quite like the haredi media of Israel.

  • Avrabanel

    From what I observed of the Haredim in a neighboring town who do not own televisions in their homes, many of them were sitting together at the local kiosks and watching the world cup games while drinking coffee or tea.

    It seems all Haredim do not read the same newspapers, and these people do study Torah during most of the day.  I do not watch soccer games in general myself, but if others find them of interest, I cannot see the harm.

  • Yitzy

    These people are creeps and are the ones who are causing Israel all of it’s problems.

  • Another Rachel

    At least I can say I have something in common with orthodox Jews.  I’m so sick of the world cup!