Fox NewsA dispute over a cake in Colorado raises a new question about gay rights and religious freedom: If bakers can be fined for refusing to serve married gay couples, can they also be punished for declining to make a cake with anti-gay statements? A baker in suburban Denver who refused to make a cake for a same-sex wedding is fighting a legal order requiring him to serve gay couples even though he argued that would violate his religious beliefs.But now a separate case puts a twist in the debate over discrimination in public businesses,...
Friday, 23 January 2015
Times of IsraelSome 150 religious Jewish women, most of them wives of rabbis affiliated with the Tzohar organization, gathered this week in Holon to talk about sexuality. The event, entitled “Guf Rishon” (First Person) was the first of its kind in Israel. Spearheaded not by the rabbis of Tzohar – which seeks to promote Jewish identity from a religious Zionism standpoint – but their wives, the gathering allowed these Orthodox women to discuss their own sexuality and that of their families in a public, supportive atmosphere. ...
YNET For background see previous post on Yona Weinbergיונה וינברג הורשע בארצות הברית בניצול מיני של קטינים ונידון למאסר. שכניו מתנגדים לכך שיקבל אזרחות ישראלית: "מדובר בפדופיל שהוגדר מסוכן לציבור". עורך דינו: "הוא שילם את חובו לחברה ורוצה לבנות את חייו מחדש"יונה (ג'ייסון) וינברג, יהודי בן 37 עשה באחרונה עלייה לישראל וקבע את מקום מושבו בשכונת הר נוף בירושלים. לכאורה, עוד עולה חדש, אולם שכניו גילו כי מדובר בלא פחות מאדם...
Thursday, 22 January 2015
NY Times The speaker of the New York State Assembly, Sheldon Silver, was arrested on federal corruption charges on Thursday and accused of using the power of his office for more than a decade to secure millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks and then covering up his schemes, according to court documents.Mr. Silver, a Democrat from the Lower East Side of Manhattan who has served as speaker for more than two decades, is accused...
This is testimony from a member of a prominent Viennese family - who unfortunately is afraid (with good cause) to have her identity known. October 11th 2011I write as a woman , mother and friend of Ms. Beth Schlesinger, because it hurts that she is completely alone because of lies being spread about her. However, I post anonymously because I do not want the same thing to happen to me that happened to two other ladies in the Jewish community...
Moshe Ahron has asserted that slavery is immoral and always was so but that we have advanced over our ancestors who were not aware of its immorality. Here is what I mean. The Torah didn't create slavery. Slavery existed before the Torah was given on Har Sinai. The Torah dealt with the situation as it was - slavery already existed. The Torah improved this bad situation by regulating slavery with the goal that slavery would eventually be eradicated. To be clear, slavery was always immoral, but slavery was never the Torah's fault, the...
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