Hamechadesh is reporting on a psak given by Rav Yehuda Aryeh Dinner, a community rav and posek in Bnei Braq, who issued an interesting psak saying that an avreich kollel has no right to hire a photographer and spend 1000 shekels to have his child's chalaka, the first haircut commonly given at the age of about 3 years old, photographed.
When the Litvish became so hassidic or sephardi that this became so common among Litvishe avreichim I don't know, but so be it.
Rav Dinner says that the avreich should bring along his own camera and the entire thing will cost him 5 shekel. I guess that would be the cost of print several pictures. An avreich who wastes 1000nis on these pictures should probably not be taking money from the Rosh kollel - it might be theft. The Rosh Kollel goes around collecting money to support the avreichim so they will be able to sit and learn and be able to have what to eat and to have basic needs, not so they can spend money on such unnecessary things.
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