SPAT upon and branded a “slut” for dressing “immodestly”, Na’ama Margolese has become a national heroine following her recent appearance on TV, in which she and her mum spoke of the harassment they suffered at the hands of Jewish extremists in the Israeli town of Beth Shemeth. More than that, Prime Minister Netanyahu – according [...]
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ULTRA-Orthodox Jews in Israel have been attracting so much bad publicity over the treatment of their womenfolk that they hit back at critics over the weekend – by dressing themselves and their children in Holocaust garb. According to this report, thousands of the lame-brained extremists gathered on Saturday night in Jerusalem to protest what they [...]
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SHLOMO Fuchs is a puzzled man. The ultra-Orthodox Jew from Jerusalem cannot understand why he was taken into custody earlier this week for “exercising his right to freedom of expression”. After all, all he did was to abuse a female soldier, calling her a “slut, slut, slut!” for not taking a back seat on a [...]
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JOURNALISTS and police were roughed up, stones were thrown and refuse bins set alight in the Israeli town of Beth Shemeth yesterday when hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men got stroppy in defence of rules they have imposed to segregate their womenfolk – or chattels as they tend to regard them. Zealots in the town, according [...]
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THE latest insanity to be exposed in Jerusalem, where an ultra-Orthodox Jewish Taliban is fast increasing its influence, is an attempt to silence women singing in public. Yakov Halperin Yakov Halperin, a religious member of Jerusalem’s City Council, said: The voice of a woman can be fine … the problem we have is with women [...]
GIRLS between the ages of six and 12 are being targeted by angry Orthodox Jews in the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh, who claim that the pupils at the Orot Girl’s Elementary school are dressing in an immodest and slutty manner. The BBC reports that, as the girls and their mothers make their way home, [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
