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August 2017

August 14, 2017

Misogyny and homophobia on the rise among French Jews

Last month we reported on the launch of a liberal mosque in Germany that drew...

August 06, 2017

Switching electricity suppliers to get 'kosher' Sabbath power

About 12 years ago I read a Telegraph report about an ultra-Orthodox Jewish electrician and...

July 2017

July 29, 2017

Connecticut rabbi, 77, arrested on sexual assault charges

A prominent Connecticut rabbi and hard-line morality campaigner, Rabbi Daniel Greer, has been charged with...

July 18, 2017

Jewish journalist demoted over Chicago Dyke March coverage

Last month an LGBT publication, the Windy City Times, carried a report by Gretchen Rachel...

July 17, 2017

Montreal police issue arrest warrant for hate preacher

Months after a Jewish group in Canada demanded police action against Muslim hate preacher, Sheikh...

July 16, 2017

Man sacked over Sabbath working rule wins damages

Richard Zilberg, 54, a Jewish hairdresser in Montreal, has been awarded $12,500 in damages following...

July 04, 2017

Rabbi among those arrested in NJ benefits fraud investigation

Rabbi Zalmen Sorotzkin, 39, who runs the Congregation Lutzk synagogue in Lakewood, New Jersey, was...

July 03, 2017

Poles apart: religion and the real world

When I was growing up in a religious Polish family I found myself really close...

June 2017

June 26, 2017

Israel accused of 'cowardice' over mixed gender prayer area

Anat Hoffman, chair of the Women of the Wall group, has lashed out at the...

June 23, 2017

Victory for woman who sued El Al over gender segregation

Last April we carried a piece about Renee Rabinowitz, above, who launched a lawsuit against...

June 19, 2017

Rabbi in hot water over views on feminism & homosexuality

Rabbi Joseph Dweck, above, senior rabbi of the Sephardi community in the UK, has stepped...

May 2017

May 24, 2017

The Trump Effect: religious fervour engulfs armed forces

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), headed by Michael 'Mikey' Weinstein, above, is alleging that...

May 20, 2017

Dagbladet's anti-circumcision cartoon attacked by rabbi

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, President of the Conference of European Rabbis, has called on Norwegian authorities...

April 2017

April 17, 2017

So, which religion is right?

Eighty-four percent of the world’s population (5.8 billion out of 6.9 billion in 2010) are...

April 16, 2017

Apostates need support. Help rescue them from religion.

HumanistGlobal.org – the new website of the Brighter Brains Institute that launched the world’s first...

April 02, 2017

Rabbi allegedly stole funds from special needs school

Rabbi Osher Eisemann, 60, above, of Lakewood in New Jersey, has been indicted for stealing...

March 2017

March 29, 2017

Not much wisdom

There’s this idea that even if you’re not a believer and you don’t see Holy...

March 29, 2017

Ultra-Orthodox Jews are spared the sight of a female Smurf

The billboard above – advertising a a new Smurf movie – has been censored to...

March 24, 2017

Jews and Muslims unite to condemn hate preacher

Jordanian cleric Sheikh Muhammad bin Musa Al Nasr, above, has sparked an investigation into a...

March 10, 2017

Rabbis appeased – and infant boys suffer the consequences

Several years ago Orthodox Jews in New York city kicked off when an attempt was...

March 07, 2017

Fuck modesty for International Women's Day on March 8!

Wherever Islamism gains power and influence, it comes for women first. And it's always a...

February 2017

February 19, 2017

Common humanity should be at the core of our politics

I was born in Iran; I am a migrant, a refugee. But I am not...

February 16, 2017

Orthodox Jewish hooligans create havoc on easyJet flight

Back in 2014, bad behaviour by Orthodox Jewish men who refuse to sit next to...

February 11, 2017

Action urged against rabbis who support abusive husband

Israeli women’s rights activist and lawyer Batya Kahane-Dror, above, has lodged a complaint against three...

January 2017

January 15, 2017

Synagogue arson attack was a 'protest', not a hate crime

A regional court in Germany ruled this week that an attempt to set fire to...

January 01, 2017

Orthodox Jews: girl risks being 'ostracised' for eating burgers

A court in London was told this week that a nine-year-old girl faces being ostracised...

December 2016

December 20, 2016

Rabbi Lionel Blue will present his own obituary tonight

One of the very few individuals remotely capable of uttering anything sensible on BBC Radio...

December 11, 2016

'Don't criticise communities who refuse to be integrated'

Seven days ago, Dame Louise Casey, above, published a community report which called on Brits...

December 06, 2016

Danish doctors take a stand against infant circumcision

While stopping short of calling for a total ban on circumcision, the Danish Medical Association...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

Rabbi exposed for running a circumcision racket in Israel

Rabbi Eliyahu Asulin, of Hadera, above, is being paid thousands by students wanting to become...