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October 2018

October 19, 2018

Crucifix is not a religious symbol, claims Quebec’s new Premier

Quebec's new Premier is pushing for fewer religious symbols and more secularism on his patch...

October 15, 2018

Study finds that bizarre Jewish ritual can have health benefits

A religious ritual involving leather straps and two wooden boxes – one fixed to the...

September 2018

September 24, 2018

UK’s Chief Rabbi accused of blasphemy over LGBT+ guide

Jerusalem-based Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, above, has reportedly gone ballistic over an LGBT+ guide issued earlier...

September 11, 2018

The future of humankind rests on an unblemished red heifer

Creators of religious laws must surely have been giggling hysterically into their beards when they...

September 06, 2018

Rabbi tells Jewish schools to disregard biblical homophobia

The toxic book of Leviticus, the Old Testament's principal source of homophobia, appears to have...

August 2018

August 31, 2018

Rabbi among seven arrested over school funding fraud

Rabbi Aron Melber, who works at a religious school in Rockland Country, New York, was...

August 20, 2018

NYC Inspectors denied access to 15 ultra-Orthodox schools

A three-year investigation into ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools in New York culminated in a report published...

August 13, 2018

Orthodox Jews seek court protection against Skunk spray

The Israeli High Court of Justice has been asked to stop police using a foul-smelling...

July 2018

July 25, 2018

Imam faces jail time over hate sermon in Danish mosque

In the first case of its kind in Denmark, prosecutors yesterday charged Imam Mundhir Abdallah, above,...

July 23, 2018

Non-Orthodox weddings: Rabbi gets nabbed by Israeli police

In a 5am raid on his home last week, Rabbi Dov Haiyun, above, was hauled...

July 20, 2018

Harvard man sacked for 'anti-Semitic' circumcision show

Beneath a recently uploaded YouTube video of his one-man show Sex & Circumcision: An American...

July 14, 2018

Starbucks no longer kosher. Storm in a coffee cup ensues.

Star-K, a US-based kosher-certifying agency, is the bringer of bad tidings to Jews who buy...

July 12, 2018

Slovenly, rowdy Hasidic Jews evicted from Quebec town

Denis Chalifoux, above, mayor of Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, was compelled to initiate court action against a group...

June 2018

June 30, 2018

This man is judged too crazy to warrant Republican support

It takes some doing to be rejected by a political party packed to the rafters...

June 27, 2018

Rabbi says model's naked pose is 'offensive' to worshippers

Last year Belgian model Marisa Papen, 26, got into a spot of bother when she...

June 26, 2018

Inadequacies of a Jewish faith school exposed in a new report

Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls’ School, a London state-aided Chasidic school headed by principal Rabbi Avraham Pinter,...

June 24, 2018

Ultra-Orthodox nutters disrupt an El Al flight from New York

By refusing to sit next to women or engage in any way with female flight...

June 21, 2018

'British values' proving 'hostile' to Orthodox Jews in the UK

Orthodox Jews in north London gathered en masse on Tuesday of this week to protest...

June 12, 2018

Panic over for US Jews with non-kosher mortgages

Orthodox Jews who had taken out mortgages with Quicken Loans, which claims to be America’s...

June 05, 2018

Prayers for man who damaged a 'magic schlepping circle'

Following an appearance in court yesterday of Yerachmiel E Taube, inset, on charges related to...

June 04, 2018

Vandal destroys 'critical piece of Jewish infrastructure'

Yerachmiel E Taube, 28, of Sharon, Massachusetts, is due in court today (Monday) following his...

May 2018

May 27, 2018

Religion will play no part in Philip Roth's funeral tomorrow

The prolific Jewish-American author, who died on Tuesday at the age of 85, will be...

May 16, 2018

Who invited these imbeciles to the US's Jerusalem embassy?

The Trump administration claims that it hasn't a clue how two Christian supremacist preachers, Robert...

May 08, 2018

Fashion magazine GQ disses Bible, annoys Catholic writer

Last month GQ took a swipe at some of the world's best known books, saying...

May 08, 2018

No rabbi, you do not promote learning by pandering to idiots

Rabbi Dr Natan Slifkin, above, founder and director of The Biblical Museum of Natural History...

May 07, 2018

Muslims condemn French call to rid the Koran of its nasty bits

The head of the Great Mosque of Bordeaux, Tareq Obrou, above, is one of a...

May 04, 2018

Jewish children injured in ritual burning of 'evil' smartphones

After a number of smartphones were thrown onto a Lag B’Omer bonfire in London's Stamform...

April 2018

April 27, 2018

Religion trumps equality: court rules against London coroner

Senior coroner Mary Hassell, above, who refused to fast-track Muslim and Jewish burials, has been...

April 25, 2018

Denmark's bid to ban male circumcision hits the buffers

Denmark’s ruling Liberal Party has come out against a ban on the circumcision of young...

April 24, 2018

'Nazi dog' man Mark Meechan vows to appeal £800.00 fine

The fine was imposed on Meechan, above right, at Airdrie Sheriff Court a month after...