Tag: Jews

The Dutch parliament has voted to ban ritual animal slaughter. In a proposal condemned by Muslim and Jewish organisations, the Party for the Animals wanted a complete ban on dhabiha and shechita — the ritual slaughtering by Muslims and Jews — in cases where the animals were not stunned before being killed.

State welfare subsidies for full-time Torah study by ultra-Orthodox men have become the subject of a fierce debate.

Ultra-orthodox Jews protested in Israel against an order by the government to desegregate their schools, which previously had different sections for Ashkenazi Jews and Sephardic Jews.

The Vatican said Tuesday that moving Pope Pius XII closer to sainthood is not a hostile act against Jews, even though the wartime pontiff has been criticized for not speaking out enough against the Holocaust.

Authoritarianism is a sin of religiosity: believers need to heed the Jewish experience about respecting the secular majority.

The Westboro Baptist Church, famous for its open condemnation of Christians, Jews, and Muslims – as well as just about everyone else under the sun – is up to its old tricks, once again. In their latest act of absurdity, members of this de facto cult have posted an interpolation of the 1985 hit “We are the World”, entitled “God Hates the World” on YouTube.

Broadcaster cites 1943 document found in Rome convent as evidence