AN Israeli rabbi, Asher Dahan, 42 – accused of killing fellow rabbi Rabbi Elazar Abuhatzeira earlier this year – has been ordered to stand trial for murder despite a psychiatric opinion that he is mentally unfit to be tried. The alleged killer had apparently stabbed elderly Abuhatzeira, a mystic and Kaballist, because Abuhatzeira’s supernatural powers [...]
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UNTIL this morning I had no idea that some Jews believe in reincarnation, and that – according to some scholars: Those that are good will be born into human bodies and those that are not so good are born into animals and inanimate objects. Aaah, so that would explain the action of a rabbinical court [...]
ALLEGED dodgy dealings within an a mystical outfit described by some as “Jewish Scientology” may have led to the collapse of Madonna’s $15-million girls’ school in Malawi. Newsweek reports that the pop superstar has abandoned the project despite helping raise $18-million, and that the collapse of the Raising Malawi scheme was largely due to the [...]
EMMY-award winning comedienne Roseanne Barr, herself of Jewish ancestry, has blasted Israel for its continuing attacks on Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, calling Israel a “Nazi state” bent on torturing “the Jewish soul”. The destruction of the Jews in Israel has been assured with this inhuman attack on civilians in Gaza. Exactly as its [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 