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Sabbath uproar: El Al hit with 180 demands for compensation

Insisting they should not be flying on the Sabbath, a group of ultra-Orthodox Jews bound from New York to Israel reportedly forced an El-Al flight to make an unscheduled stop in Athens last week  – and...

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Secular group questions Muslim hate preacher’s role in a UK charity

Dr Zakir Naik, above, is banned from entering Britain, but the Islamic preacher who has praised Osama Bin Laden and said all Muslims ‘should be terrorists’ is a trustee of a registered charity. Now the...

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Faith groups & secularists say Matthew Whitaker is not fit for purpose

A letter signed last week by a coalition of 22 Muslim, Christian, Jewish and secular groups calls for Trump’s acting Attorney General to step down over his stated belief that US judges should be...

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Crackpot Christian conference expelled from the Museum of the Bible

The poster above, created by Lamplighter Ministries for a conference at the troubled Museum of the Bible in Washington DC, had to be altered after the museum pulled the plug on the Revolution  2018...

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Trump’s ‘fixer’ may go to a prison known for its tasty Jewish food

If you’re a Jewish miscreant who has to do jail time in New York, pray that a judge will send you FCI Otisville, where you’ll be served delicious dishes such as matzo ball soup. The kosher culinary...

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Nude female Christ in RE book aims to ‘provoke thought, not outrage’

There was a right kerfuffle 34 years ago when a sculpture of ‘Christa’ was unveiled at New York Episcopal Cathedral of St John the Divine – and there might well further outrage because the image now...

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Homeopathy and homosexuality: there are pills to cure your ills

At the very end of a lengthy expose of faith-based gay cures offered in Israel, May Kaduri, writing for YNet News, reveals she was offered pills to cure her ‘attaction to women’ by homeopath David...

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‘A sad day for Jews’: Belgium bans religious slaughter

The head of the Conference of European Rabbis, Pinchas Goldschmidt, has slammed new rules that came into effect on January 1 that stipulate animals have to be stunned before slaughter – a method that...

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UK education advice ‘violates Orthodox Jew’s human rights’

SHRAGA Stern, a London-based Charedi activist, is, by all accounts, a right pain in the arse. Described here as “a dreadful self-publicist”, last year he made headlines when he angered the Union of the...

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Muslim extremists force cancellation of mosque’s Holocaust event

FIYAZ Mughal, UK-based Director of Faith Matters, claims that ‘forward thinking’ members of his community are being ‘held to ransom’ by Muslim extremists, after Golders Green mosque abandoned an...

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Defiant Jews threaten home schooling to ‘preserve their kids’ purity’

ACRIMONY between Ultra-Orthodox Jews and education authorities has reached a point where some are threatening to home school their children, or even leave the country if subjects such as homosexuality...

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Near-nude poses in muscle contest costs muezzin his mosque job

IBRAHIM Masri, 45, who had the job of calling people to prayer to the El-Jazzar Mosque in Acre in Israel, has reportedly been sacked because he posed in a bathing suit at a bodybuilding contest. The...

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Jewish family allege religious discrimination over BO incident

AMERICAN Airlines have been accused of religious discrimination for asking a family to leave a plane in Florida because their body odour offended passengers and crew. Yossi Adler, above, a 36-year-old...

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The War of the Noses: Malaysia comes out the loser

MALAYSIA’S Prime Minister, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, 93, above, sees nothing offensive about calling Jews ‘hook-nosed’. Last year the world’s oldest political leader said: They are hook-nosed. Many people...

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Brexit forces UK Jews to apply for German citizenship

THE grandson of a 93-year-old UK woman who survived the Holocaust is among thousands of British Jews who have applied for German citizenship as the UK prepares to leave the European Union. Simon...

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NY religious leaders vehemently oppose teaching practical subjects

NEW York State’s education authorities want pupils in religious and independent schools to be taught subjects such as maths, English and science but faith leaders are complaining that these will...

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UK faith schools are being unfairly targeted by education watchdog

EDUCATION watchdog Ofsted has been accused of unfairly targeting faith schools by the Chairman of the Education Select Committee, Robert Halfon. Halfon, above, according to this report, said that...

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Rare rabbinical ruling highlights plight of ‘chained’ Jewish women

IN  an ‘extremely rare’ ruling, a private rabbinic court in Jerusalem has annulled the marriage of a woman whose husband refused her a divorce – and Sunday’s decision appears to have set the court at...

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Orthodox Jews in London win a landmark case over housing

IN a landmark case, a charity providing accommodation exclusively for Charedi Jews in Stamford Hill, London, has won a legal battle against a non-Jewish family who claimed its ‘Jews only’ criteria was...

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Students vote for ban of non-stunned meat at Oxford College

THE President of the Jewish Society at an Oxford University college has attacked a motion passed by students calling for a ban of halal and kosher meats from its dining hall. The BBC reports that...

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