September 22, 2008 | 4:50 am

Charedi men caught surfing pr0n

Posted by Adam Wills

Photo from Ynet shows late-night visit to Bar-Ilan computer lab.

Yedioth Ahronoth reporter Omer Ori has confirmed that some Charedi men from Bnei Brak, who are not normally permitted access to the Internet by their rabbis, are leaving the wife and kids behind in the wee hours in order to sneak into the Bar-Ilan University Student Union computer lab to view online pornographic material.

A university employee confirmed the rumors. “It’s true that this happens quite often and they tried catching these people but they aren’t always successful,” he said. “It is difficult to control what goes on there and we can’t just close the computer center used by the students.”
It is relatively easy to enter the university late at night. A Yedioth Ahronoth Ramat Gan reporter wandered into the area on Monday night and assessed the phenomenon, coming across a number of ultra-Orthodox men who sat and surfed freely on the library’s computers. Some of them were indeed on porn sites.

The university said in response that “in the past it was brought to the university’s attention that strangers who are not students arrive on campus, enter the Student Union offices and use the computers without permission.
“In coordination with the union, we reached a decision to decrease the amount of hours the offices are open and we were indeed successful in significantly reducing the phenomenon. The university administration is planning on assessing additional steps in completely eliminating the entrance of strangers.”

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