from forward: Check out this video. What’s the story? Any guesses? It looks like a video of a garbage processing plant, or maybe a recycling project. In fact, as the noisy truck starts to tip out its load, so begins the newest bizarre religious ritual in Israel. Amnon Yitzhak, the charismatic outreach rabbi, decided to hold a ceremony in Jerusalem destroying televisions to make the point that they are a corrupting influence, bringing harmful secular values to the lives of viewers. Part of the ritual destruction was held opposite the offices of the Israel Broadcasting Authority headquarters in Jerusalem. Yitzhak is a secular-born Israeli who became religious at age 24 and has, for the last 15 years, been running Shofar, an organization that encourages people to follow his footsteps and make the same change.