International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network condems Israel for Gaza massacre

We write with grief and rage as we watch the horrifying Israeli air and ground attacks on Gaza. As Jews committed to ending Zionism, the founding ideology of Israel, and all forms of colonialism, we stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, who continue to struggle in the face of these attacks, much as they have against more than 60 years of ethnic cleansing and racism. As Joseph Massad recently wrote, Gaza is in uprising against genocide, and is receiving today the same indifference from the capitals of the West that the rebels in the Warsaw Ghetto received in 1943.

We stand with the hundreds of thousands who have taken the streets in solidarity with Gaza’s resistance. We stand with all those who struggle against racism, dispossession and genocide. We stand with the majority. We will not be silent on Gaza.

Haredi Jews bans women from Succot event

A haredi woman pushes a stroller in Jerusalem [file].

"The Talmud teaches that even in the time of Temple men and women were strictly separated and this was called 'the big tikkun.' I am happy that this year we will have this tikkun in Jerusalem."

Hmmm - women are required to cover their hair, wear loose fitting garments, cover their legs, separate themselves from men - sounds like another religion we've heard alot about lately...

Ortho Jews "transfer sins" into chickens before slaughter

Yoni Aranoff, 13, with Myron Robinson, his grandfather, doing the kaparot ritual in Queens.

He immediately suspected People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which has mounted a campaign against the practice over the past few years, even producing a 10-minute video of the practice in Brooklyn (one of the scenes shows the chickens being stuffed into orange traffic cones).

According to some rabbis, the kaparot custom may trace its origins to the destruction of the Holy Temple, when the high priest chose one of two goats on Yom Kippur through a lottery and designated it to absorb the sins of the people of Israel. Now, chickens and roosters are commonly used.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews required to use kosher cellphones

One of the defining features of kosher mobiles is a rabbinical stamp

The kosher cellphone looks like an ordinary cellphone, can make and receive calls, and may have a calculator and alarm clock. But it cannot send or receive text messages, browse the internet or take photos - all activities that could potentially involve behaviour considered "immodest" among Haredis.

Some Haredi Jews have embraced modern technology, with limits

Jewish "modesty patrols" terrorize unchaste women - Rabbis won't condemn them

An ultra-Orthodox woman walks past a shop selling long-sleeve shirts and ankle-length skirts which women are required to wear according to Jewish law, in a religious neighborhood in Jerusalem, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008. In Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, where the rule of law takes a back seat to the rule of God, religious zealots are on a crusade to stamp out unchaste behavior. They hurl stones at women for 'sins' as trivial as wearing a red blouse, and attack stores that sell devices that can access the Internet. In recent weeks, modesty enforcers have been accused of breaking into the apartment of a Jerusalem woman and beating her because they suspected she consorted with men. They also torched a store that sells MP4 players, fearing devout Jews would use them to download pornography. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Orthodox Jews serve as drug runners

In 2001, Sean Erez, now 38, pleaded guilty to drug conspiracy in Brooklyn, N.Y., after admitting to running an ecstasy distribution network that used young Orthodox Jews to smuggle the "hug drug" out of Amsterdam and into the U.S.

But, you didn't hear a word about this in the Zionist controlled main-stream media...

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish vigilantes spread fear in Jerusalem

Two Orthodox Jewish boys look at a Satr of David tattoo on the leg of a fellow worshipper at the Wailing Wall in the heart of Jerusalem. Shaking as she recalled her brutal beating at the hands of Jewish ultra-Orthodox vigilantes, a 28-year-old Jerusalem woman who would only identify herself as M. said she feared for her life Photo:Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP

Some residents say the self-styled "modesty squads" are spreading terror among those seen as straying from the strict moral code demanded of the ultra-Orthodox in the more conservative neighbourhoods of the Holy City.

They are perpetrating terror, so why aren't these "vigilantes" called what they really are - TERRORISTS - oh, silly me - they're Jews, that's why...

Israel's "back of the bus" rule sparks religious row

Ultra-Orthodox Jews sit aboard a bus in Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, January 14, 2008. REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen

"Every time Israeli student Iris Yoffe takes the bus to Jerusalem, she has to be ready for abuse from ultra-Orthodox Jews who say she should be kept off because she's wearing trousers."

And you thought it was only those "extremist" Muslims that treated women as second class citizens, didn't you?