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Will this Eritrean refugee be banned from Tel Aviv buses? (photo: flickr/Activestills)

TA councilman calls for separate buses for ‘smelly’ foreigners

A Tel Aviv city councilman is appealing to the state to allocate separate buses for African refugees and migrant workers, according to an article published on Mynet on Thursday Last week, Tel Aviv City Councilman Binyamin Babayoff (Shas) sent a letter to Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai, Minister of Transportation Israel Katz, and Dr. Moshe…

By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat February 18, 2012

Tallit and Kippa from a Glasgow synagogue, 2007 (Photo: Jimmy MacDonald/flickr)

Orthodox Jewish, British, Pro-Israel, Pro-peace

Last week I met and spoke to a small group of Orthodox Jews in London, about Israeli political and social developments. I expected a challenging crowd, although the meeting’s organizer Hannah Weisfeld – who is working tirelessly to start an organization inspired by J Street in the UK – assured me that the audience was broadly…

By Dahlia Scheindlin March 22, 2011

Jewish brotherhood burning of bread ritual carried out in public (Yossi Gurvitz)

Nobody mentions the Jewish Brotherhood

Israelis bemoan the alleged rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, ignoring their own local variety While Israelis pay plenty of attention to the fear of the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, they steadfastly ignore the rise of the Jewish brotherhood in their own country. The motto of the MB is “Islam is…

By Yossi Gurvitz February 5, 2011

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Burning of bread on the eve of Passover (Yossi Gurvitz)

Jewish Orthodox publication openly calls for death camps

Orthodox rabbis long for the day when they’ll wipe out Amalekites, and two more notes Rabbis for Death Camps: One of the popular genres of media generally unfamiliar to the Israeli secular public is that of synagogue pamphlets. There are quite a few of them, and they are distributed on Fridays to thousands of synagogue.…

By Yossi Gurvitz January 15, 2011

Israeli rabbis commit atrocity against Jewish history

Renowned Israeli author Yoram Kaniuk on the Rabbi’s letter forbidding rental of apartments to Arabs By Yoram Kaniuk Translated by Yuval Ben Ami When settlers and Rabbis called the policemen and soldiers of Israel “Nazis”, hardly anyone spoke out. When I voiced criticism over this, I received phone threats. Then, last week, when MK and…

By +972 Magazine December 16, 2010

The rabbis’ racist letter: many words, little action

While public figures in Israel condemned the latest rabbinical Fatwa against renting homes to Arabs, little to no action was taken against its authors. Also, some secular Jewish communities are introducing their own version of the racist letter Almost two weeks passed since dozens of Israeli rabbis – most of them civil servants, working for…

By Noam Sheizaf December 16, 2010

Protesting the rabbis’ letter: “1935 is here”

The rabbis’ ruling against renting homes to Arabs, made public this week, brought dark memories to some Israelis At Wednesday night’s protest in front of the Great Synagogue in Jerusalem condemning the rabbis’ letter, the message was clear: 1935 is here, referring to the legislation of the Nuremburg Laws in Nazi Germany. Speakers at the…

By Mairav Zonszein December 9, 2010