UK body modification trial raises questions about circumcision
CIRCUMCISIONS carried out for religious reasons on children who are unable to consent to the procedure ought logically to be outlawed in the UK, given a ruling yesterday (Tuesday) by the UK Court of...
View ArticleLGBT teaching threatens ‘tolerance and respect for religion’
UK Education Secretary Damien Hinds has come under fire over the provision of same-sex relationship lessons in Orthodox Jewish schools. The Federation of Synagogues, led by Dayan Lichtenstein penned an...
View ArticleBelgian city feels the heat over ‘hateful’ Jewish carnival float
AALST is a small city northwest of Brussels with a big problem. It’s become the focus of international condemnation over a float, pictured above, which has been described as a ‘manifestation of hate’....
View ArticleGay rabbinical student, booted from pizzeria, is awarded damages
AFTER he was shown the door by an employee at a pizzeria in Jerusalem, Sammy Kanter, above, an American rabbinical student, took legal action against the food outlet – and won. What upset the Ben...
View ArticleDeranged rabbi says kids born blind viewed porn in a previous life
SOME mothers do have ’em – and in case of Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi, above, one wishes that he’d never been born at all because of his outrageously offensive views. Yet this week, despite deep revulsion...
View ArticleCatholic fanatic slithers into the UK to lead a Lent retreat in London
EARLIER this week we reported that Yosef Mizrachi, a demented rabbi who believes, among other things that children born blind had watched porn in another life, had been denied entry to the UK. However...
View ArticleNew Zealand Muslim leader blames Israel for deadly mosque attack
AHMED Bhamji, named in New Zealand media as the chairman of the Masjid e Umar Auckland area mosque, is being widely rebuked after telling a remembrance rally for the 50 victims of the March 15 shooting...
View Article‘Liberal’ Jewish seminary refuses to ordain an openly gay student
JEWISH Queer Youth has castigated New York’s Yeshivat Chovevei Torah for refusing to ordain openly gay rabbinical student, Daniel Atwood, pictured left above with his partner Judah Gavant. In a...
View ArticleDoc who said she’d give Jews ‘wrong meds’ has job offer withdrawn
KERN Medical Center in Bakersfield, California, this week withdrew a job offer made to Dr Lara Kollab, above, who was fired last year from the Cleveland Clinic after it was discovered that she had...
View ArticleMeasles outbreak: NY warns it could shut Jewish religious colleges
ORTHODOX Jewish colleges (yeshivas) in Brooklyn have been warned that they could face closure if they allow pupils who have not been vaccinated against measles to attend classes. The New York City...
View ArticleTop US attorney files sexual abuse lawsuit against a Jewish school
MICHAEL Dolce, above, a prominent US attorney specialising in sexual abuse cases, has filed a lawsuit against a Jewish preschool operated by the Washington Hebrew Congregation, alleging that it failed...
View ArticlePassover greeting from UK’s Labour Party angers Jews
THE Labour Party, which has been struggling for months to throw off accusations of anti-Semitism, today found itself in the midst of a fresh row – over bread. The party was forced to delete a tweet...
View ArticleUK to investigate child sexual abuse in more faith organisations
The UK’s Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) is to widen its probe to include a range of religious organisations including the Jehovah’s Witnesses. The new investigation is separate...
View ArticleDiscredited UK doctor addresses anti-vaxx Orthodox Jewish rally
ON Monday, a ‘vaccine symposium’ attended by hundreds of mainly ultra-Orthodox Jews took place in Rockland County, New York – and among the speakers was Andrew Wakefield, above, who was struck off the...
View ArticleChristian missionaries posed as ‘frum Yids’ to bring Jews to Jesus
THE discovery that a pair of Christian missionaries had infiltrated a Jewish community to sneakily promote Jesus as The One True Saviour has reportedly caused gloom and consternation in Chicago. Rivkah...
View ArticleProtesting Haredi Jews flee as women strip down to their bras
FOOTAGE has emerged of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men abandoning a Eurovision protest in Jerusalem and fleeing when a small group of women peeled off their tops. The women’s action, according to this...
View ArticleAngry Orthodox Jewish women challenge transgender pond policy
BECAUSE Jewish law (halacha) does not recognise transgenderism, a decision by the City of London Corporation to open a women-only swimming pond at Hampstead Heath to trans swimmers effectively puts it...
View ArticleAngry anti-vaxxers reportedly ‘lose their minds’ in NY’s state Capitol
Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, above, was screamed at, threatened and even called a ‘motherfucker’ for sponsoring a bill aimed at ending New York’s policy of allowing religious exemptions from vaccine...
View ArticleTreif sold to Jewish customers at a top kosher delicatessen
IN a letter to Liverpool’s Jewish residents, Rabbi Natan Fagleman, above, has advised Roseman’s Delicatessen customers to bin food bought from the deli, and not use any utensils that were used to cook...
View Article‘Furs come from God’ and a NY ban may endanger Orthodox Jews
A PROPOSED ban on the sale of new fur garments in New York could lead to attacks on Hasidic Jewish men, who are characterised by the enormous fur hats (shtreimels) that they wear. Brooklyn councilman...
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