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Ritually-slaughtered meat? Not on my damn plate!

Sunday, June 1, 2008

EVER since witnessing – as a 12-year-old – the sickening slaughter of calf by a rabbi who slit the animal’s throat and impassively watched it in its death throes, I have sworn off religiously-slaughtered meat, and have gone to great lengths to avoid all kosher and halal produce.
So you can imagine my disgust when – [...]

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Religion? It’s all crap suggested Einstein

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

A LETTER written by Einstein the year before his death says that God is the product of human weakness and that the Bible is “pretty childish”.
The letter, which being auctioned in London this week, adds more fuel to the debate about the Nobel prize-winning physicist’s religious views. It is expected to fetch around £6,000
Einstein, who [...]

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Orthodox Jew strips off in protest over Jewish food ruling

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

HERE’S a sight one does not often seen in public in Israel – or anywhere else for that matter: an Orthodox Jewish man wearing nothing but a sock over his genitals.
Ah, but the supermarket, in which he almost bared all, was not a public place, argued the unnamed 27-year-old yeshiva student.
He entered the [...]

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Middle East earthquakes: It’s the gays what did it

Sunday, February 24, 2008

SIX earthquakes have struck Israel and neighbouring Lebanon and Jordan in recent months, with two coming last week alone - and what is to blame? Homosexuality.
That’s the view of imbecile Shlomo Benizri, MP, of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas party, who, according to the Telegraph, believes that the tremors could be stopped by repealing various liberalising [...]

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Hard-on Jesus exposed at last

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

WHEN Stephen ‘Stay a Virgin, Marry a Virgin’ Green demanded the destruction of gay artist Terence Koh’s Jesus-with-wood figurine (see the original Freethinker report here) we could not find a photograph of the ‘offensive’ piece.
But now, at last, a picture of the foot-high piece has come to light - thanks to the diligence of the [...]

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Jews ape Catholics by interfering in the democratic process

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

FOLLOWING the Vatican’s recent call to Spaniards not to vote for Spain’s socialist Government, the US’s oldest rabbinical group has exhorted Jews not to vote for anti-family values candidates in the upcoming presidential elections.
Rabbi Yehuda Levin, spokesman for the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U.S. and Canada this week issued the following statement:
It [...]

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Never on a Saturday

Friday, December 21, 2007

Every so often someone complains s/he can’t follow a particular superstition because of the demands of work. British Airways seems to have copped for it twice recently.
There was the case of Nadia Eweida, and her wish to wear a cross or crucifix (read about that here). BA backed down.
Now a Jewish man is claiming – [...]

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