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...
View ArticleSecular 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...
View ArticleFaith 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...
View ArticleCrackpot 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...
View ArticleTrump’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...
View ArticleNude 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...
View ArticleHomeopathy 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...
View Article‘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...
View ArticleUK 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...
View ArticleMuslim 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...
View ArticleDefiant 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...
View ArticleNear-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...
View ArticleJewish 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleBrexit 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...
View ArticleNY 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...
View ArticleUK 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...
View ArticleRare 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...
View ArticleOrthodox 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...
View ArticleStudents 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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