Category: Judaism
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Holocaust school text books are the latest to fall foul of Florida’s anti-education laws
GOVERNOR Ron DeSantis’s administration’s crackdown on “woke” teaching and “indoctrination” took a worrying new turn when it was reported that two new Holocaust textbooks have been rejected, and another— The Hebrew Bible— was compelled to alter a passage. Modern Genocides was rejected, in part, for its discussion of “special topics” prohibited by the state. The…
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PETA re-writes the creation myth in a vegan Bible; calls objectors ‘wrong-headed’
ANIMAL sacrifice runs rampant throughout Scripture because “without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.” All this bloodshed is totally unacceptable, according People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), which has taken liberties with the Bible in a new publication entitled The Book: PETA’s Version of the Creation Story. Produced as a digital…
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Orthodox Jewish man stages protests outside a synagogue who ousted him for being gay
WHEN Brian Mandel, 53. and his husband moved from New York to Florida in 2018, they later discovered a home-based synagogue—Kehillas Hollywood Hills—close to their home, and joined the small congregation in 2021. But their relationship with the shul soon turned sour after some members some members of the congregation began expressing “discomfort” with the…
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Earthquake disaster in Syria and Turkey was God’s way of punishing Israel’s enemies, says rabbi
On Friday, when the death toll in the two countries was about to surpass 28,000, Shmuel Eliyahu, above, the far-right Chief Rabbi of Safed in Israel, horrified a number Jewish leaders by claiming the disaster was “divine retribution.“ BARRED from entering the US last year for his racism, Eliyahu is notorious for hate speech directed…
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Amid Jewish protests over Israel’s far-right government, a US rabbi uses ‘F’ word to describe the coalition
Last week Labour MP Kim Johnson offered an apology for calling the new coalition, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, above, ‘fascist’. It’s now reported that a New York rabbi used the same word in reference to a cabinet that he claimed was made up of ‘Jewish supremacists, fascists and racists’. RABBI Jeremy Kalmanofsky, of New York’s…
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Homophic Republican Congressman, who won support from NY right-wing Jews by pretending to be Jewish, is outed as a drag queen
George Santos. Image via Wikipedia CC LAST December New Yorker Santos entered the US Congress with Jewish support after telling a whole bunch of lies. These including a claim that he was a Jew, and a descendant of Holocaust survivors. At the time, Jacques Berlinerblau, writing for MSNBC, said that right-wing Jews—”a minority in the Jewish…