Technology

February 16, 2024

Flip phones: not just for Haredim anymore, says NY Times

In a recent profile of Haredi-owned Fabuwood cabinet manufacturer, columnist Kashmir Hill praised the company’s no-smartphone policy

December 31, 2023

Year end reflections on Shtetl’s first ten months of reporting: the top issues of 2023

With the intimate familiarity of insiders but free from the usual top-down oversight of Haredi media, we reported on everything from the Satmar rebbe's bragging about deceiving legislators to Agudah's efforts to keep the Times from winning a Pulitzer

August 28, 2023

Monsey man invents filter for Tesla browser, but it requires tampering with the hardware too

The $1,500 service disables the browser and “all other things that are not permitted”

May 5, 2023

Skver bans followers from using artificial intelligence

Rabbis worry that AI tools could expose followers to unfiltered content