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October 2021

October 22, 2021

UK edges towards legalising assisted dying. Faith leaders appalled.

AFTER an eight-hour debate in the House of Lords today (Friday), Baroness Meacher’s Assisted Dying...

September 2021

September 10, 2021

US Muslims say ‘don’t compare Texas’ abortion ban to sharia law’

WORLD-renowned author Stephen King, above, used Twitter to declare "The Taliban would love the Texas...

May 2021

May 10, 2021

NY summer camp will bar people vaccinated against COVID-19

ANYONE wanting to attend a new summer camp organised by Brooklyn-based 'health coach' Naftali Schwartz,...

December 2020

December 25, 2020

America’s top Jewish Santa defies Judaic law

THERE'S a Jewish law – Chillul Hashem – that prohibits the desecration of God's name....

December 21, 2020

Faith-heads conflicted over the morality of Covid-19 vaccines

IN mid-December, evangelist Franklin Graham, above, thanked God, Trump and Mike Pence for the roll-out...

December 01, 2020

UK rabbi, accused of homophobia, sues two local councillors

RABBI Alan Plancey, above, recently appointed Mayor of the English town of Hertsmere in Hertfordshire,...

November 2020

November 21, 2020

UK man who blames Jews for COVID-19 wears swastika to court

A JUDGE at the Old Bailey in London ordered a man accused of stirring up...

November 12, 2020

NY rabbi who avoided jail for child sex abuse dies of COVID-19

BACK in 2012, Rabbi Joel Kolko, above, avoided a jail sentence after pleading guilty to...

September 2020

September 21, 2020

Victory for bigotry: Orthodox Jews win sex-ed concessions

EARLIER this year Dunja Mijatović, above, the Council of Europe's Commissioner on Human Rights, sounded...

August 2020

August 17, 2020

Trump’s ‘Yo-semite’ gaffe is now a rallying call for pro-Biden Jews

WHEN America's Orange Menace mangled the word 'Yosemite' earlier this month – calling the National...

July 2020

July 05, 2020

Gay atheist historian draws fire for ‘so many damn blacks’ remark

DR DAVID Starkey, above, sure is a queer duck. He’s a gay atheist who opposed...

April 2020

April 23, 2020

More dead Jews than living passengers are flying into Israel

TO ensure that their dead relatives will be resurrected faster than those buried elsewhere, Orthodox...

April 13, 2020

Secular Jews have ‘an empathy gap’ regarding the ultra-Orthodox

Ultra-Orthodox communities in Israel, whose gatherings were forcibly broken up in recent days up by...

April 12, 2020

It’s not racist to blame Orthodox Jews for the spread of COVID-19

COVID-19 is spreading faster in Bnei Brak than in neighbouring Tel Aviv, thanks to the...

April 10, 2020

Pot for Passover: home deliveries soar during COVID-19 lock-down

ANY concerns Tel Aviv cannabis users may have had regarding the availability of cannabis during...

March 2020

March 22, 2020

Jewish school told: teach about LGBT relationships or be shut down

AN Orthodox Jewish school in Salford, which had been warned by the UK's Department of...

March 21, 2020

‘Time to cut the crap.’ Cops get tough with large Jewish gatherings.

EARLIER this week, police broke up two Orthodox Jewish weddings in Lakewood, New Jersey, prompting...

March 16, 2020

NJ housing association: Virgin Mary’s an ‘idol’ & ‘should be smashed’

BARRISTER Farms Condominium Association in New Jersey has been warned that unless they allow the...

March 14, 2020

Jewish school ‘inadequate’ over science and geography lessons

BNOIS Jerusalem Girls School in Hackney in north London has been slammed this week by...

February 2020

February 22, 2020

Orthodox rabbi in New York conducts his first gay wedding

WRITING for the Jewish Standard last year, Avram Mlotek, above, a New York rabbi affiliated...

December 2019

December 12, 2019

Trump declares Judaism a ‘nationality’. Liberal Jews are appalled.

OUTRAGE has erupted among liberal American Jews in the wake of a New York Times...

December 11, 2019

Blow to anti-vaxxers: NY court insists public health trumps religion

NEW York's Attorney General Letitia James, above – named as co-defendent in a legal challenge...

November 2019

November 02, 2019

Columnist’s Islamophobic piece about the UK election was ‘satirical’

AFTER facing a massive backlash for suggesting that the upcoming UK general election should be...

October 2019

October 21, 2019

Pompeo butters up Christians; angers Jews, Muslims, Humanists

AMERICAN Secretary of State Mike Pompeo keeps a Bible open on his desk because he's...

October 08, 2019

Sweden’s circumcision vote: rabbi warns of growing intolerance

RABBI Pinchas Goldschmidt, above, President of the Conference of European Rabbis (CER), has slammed Sweden’s...

October 07, 2019

NY landlord says Orthodox Jewish dad staged sex parties for cash

WHEN, earlier this year, New York property owner Wonwoo Chang rented an East Village townhouse...

September 2019

September 05, 2019

Australia discusses new legislation to protect religious bigots

IN THE wake of the Israel Folau affair that saw the rugby player sacked for...

September 04, 2019

New Jersey rabbi jailed over encounter with an underage prostitute

RABBI Aryeh Goodman, who was jailed in 2015 for indecently assaulting a boy aged 12,...

August 2019

August 27, 2019

NY Child Victims Act opens way for Jewish university to be sued

YESHIVA University High School for Boys is being sued over sexual abuse allegedly suffered by...

August 24, 2019

Delayed Jewish burial: rabbi accused of a ‘heinous crime’

OUR report on August 20 that Israel's Chief Rabbi David Lau had warned a man...