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“It’s okay to admit you’re using it, but not with your name,” said Poupko, likening it to the joke about Netflix that he says circulates among the haredi Orthodox: “It’s okay to admit watching Netflix, but God forbid you have a TV in your house.”Īs politics play out increasingly on social media, Poupko said, it becomes harder to avoid the arena if you want to defend your values. He pointed to an analysis last year in an Israeli newspaper, Yisrael Hayom: Experts on the haredi Orthodox were quoted as saying that the community’s desire to influence heated Israeli debates over coronavirus prevention drove the community’s leaders to ease restrictions. “Whoever starts to surf will not easily stop or retreat,” Gilad Malach, an expert on the haredi Orthodox at the Israel Democracy Institute, told the newspaper. Others have pointed out that, among Orthodox Jews, Chabad has carved out a unique space in its embrace of new media to spread its movement’s message. Within both haredi communities and the Chabad movement, women increasingly engage on social media, sometimes developing influencer personas under their own name on topics as diverse as religious observance, fashion, parenting and antiracism. Poupko explained that any restrictions on women engaging on social media are less severe than for men, a function of the belief that women are better equipped than men to withstand temptation. “It’s more okay for a woman to see immodesty” on social media, he said. Shulim Leifer, a Hasidic Jew who is active on Twitter and who identifies with the left - a rarity in his community - said in an interview that Raichik’s mastery of Twitter should not be surprising. Orthodox Jews have for years mastered the art of the pithy and withering exchange in closed groups on apps like WhatsApp.