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Wednesday, March 05, 2014

'Official video' of Sunday's prayer rally not so official?

In an earlier post, I reported on what purports to be an 'official video' of Sunday's prayer rally. Those who have not seen it may want to click that link and go back and see it. The video is causing quite a storm on social media, where it has been roundly criticized for its clever coordination of the song's words and the pictures to make it seem that any pursuit other than the rally is a worthless pursuit.

I took the video from a Haredi website called Kikar Shabbat, and I downloaded it onto my hard drive and embedded it so that it doesn't turn on automatically like many other videos from places other than YouTube. I know some of you will appreciate that.

It turns out that the video was originally uploaded to YouTube. It was uploaded by a user called ChemouelYaacov around midnight Tuesday night Israel time.

The user is apparently a new user. I doubt this is an official video. More likely it's a spoof intended to embarrass the rally organizers. Does anyone really think that an 'official' Haredi video would be posted on YouTube? Really?




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3 Comments:

At 5:53 PM, Blogger Shy Guy said...

I don't understand.

If there is any such thing as an "official Haredi video", it would be in digital format, which allows anyone getting their hands on it to upload it to YouTube.

Or are "official Haredi videos" still being filmed with an (super) 8mm camera? No matter what, the production always seems to come out in black and white. :)

 
At 9:11 PM, Blogger Unknown said...

whomever, it is a horrible video full of sinat yehudim worse than Goebbels ym"s
it should be sputed officially by all bnai torah and GEDOLIM as against all torahdik haskafot.

 
At 6:20 PM, Blogger Unknown said...

Someone referred me to your site to pick up a link to the video; I wasn't able to grab it from your site but another even newer user reposted it. I share your opinion and appreciate your reasoned conclusion about the video.

Far from being an "official clip," it is an amateurish mash-up, the work of a single individual sitting at his PC for perhaps two hours using Windows Movie Maker or similar software. It takes less effort, and certainly has even less authenticity, then the most poorly-produced Pashkevil claiming to represent the opinion of Gedolim.

 

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