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Article: Kosher comics prove hit with Israel's Haredi Jews.
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- Daily News Egypt (Egypt)
- Article date:
- November 8, 2009
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A far cry from the thrills of Spiderman and the sexy glam of Lois Lane, chaste and religious comics have become a hit among ultra-Orthodox Jews determined not to pollute their children's minds.
For the reclusive Haredi society that shuns television, Internet and video viewed as a source of moral corruption, the no-sex, no-violence comics offer benign entertainment and a fun way of teaching tradition to their children.
Dozens of colorful comic books featuring Biblical stories and adventures of famous rabbis and sages fill the shelves of bookstores in Haredi neighborhoods alongside the thick and austere religious textbooks.
Outside a bookstore in ...