A NEW store in Tel Aviv called Kosher Sex is the brainchild of Chana Boteach, daughter of Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, an American Orthodox rabbi best known for his 1999 best-seller Kosher Sex: A Recipe for Passion and Intimacy. Although her store places an emphasis on married couples, Boteach stresses that all customers are welcome. Anyone who believes in commitment and bringing love into this world and being intimate with someone and wants to learn – they’re welcome her. This applies… Read more
August 21, 2019
Rabbi’s daughter opens a kosher sex shop. Gays are most welcome.
August 21, 2019 By Barry Duke
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August 21, 2019
Elated crowds cheer as Cardinal Pell loses High Court appeal
August 21, 2019 By Barry Duke
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‘A wonderful day for survivors’ is how one woman greeted news today that Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic cleric to be convicted of sexual abuse, has lost his appeal against his conviction for abusing two boys in a Melbourne cathedral in the 1990s. One survivor, pictured above, told a reporter in this video: This is outstanding news. Now we can officially say ‘Pell is a criminal, Pell is a paedophile, Pell is a destroyer, a maimer of young… Read more
August 20, 2019
‘No divorce, no burial for your mother,’ Jewish man warned
August 20, 2019 By Barry Duke
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A MAN who, for ten years, refused to free his ‘chained’ former wife from a marriage finally caved in when he told that he won’t be allowed to bury his dead mother unless he grants a get (a Jewish divorce) to the woman. He agreed to end the marriage after his mother died and Chief Rabbi David Lau, above, backed a ruling preventing him from burying her until he granted the get. The ruling, and its support from Lau, according… Read more
August 20, 2019
Preacher abused a drag queen and threatened kids with hell
August 20, 2019 By Barry Duke
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AN evangelical preacher who gatecrashed a Drag Queen Story Time event in Ottawa got short shrift from parents, who objected to the way he loudly abused performer Adrianna Exposée. The preacher, Dorre Love, was booed by the parents when he began spouting biblical baloney and accused Exposée of “dressing like a whore”. He also asked those attending the event: Are you teaching children to be whores? Love was one of a group of religious protesters who interrupted the Westcliffe Community Centre… Read more
August 19, 2019
Student wrongly accused of ‘racism’ for criticising ritual slaughter
August 19, 2019 By Barry Duke
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AN exam board has admitted it was wrong to punish a 16-year-old Eastbourne pupil for making what it said were ‘obscene racial comments’ in a GCSE exam. Abigail Ward, a strict vegetarian, wrote in a Religious Studies exam that she found the idea of halal meat “absolutely disgusting” – a view shared by millions, myself included. The decision was only overturned when her school, Gildredge House in Eastbourne, appealed the decision, insisting that the pupil had been expressing her horror of halal butchery and… Read more
August 18, 2019
Muslim cleric killed by a cow he was about to sacrifice to Allah
August 18, 2019 By Barry Duke
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QURBANI or Udhiyah as it known in Arabic, is the word that describes the barbaric sacrifice of an animal to Allah during the period of Eid ul Adha. But the ritual went horribly wrong for a Muslim cleric in East Java when he was struck by a “big, fierce” cow which had broken free from its tethers. The cleric, named only Sureki, 64, died on Wednesday evening at Ngudi Waluyo Hospital after lying in a coma for three days. Sureki … Read more
August 18, 2019
NJ Mayor opposes gay history lessons. ‘Activist Mommy’ mouths off.
August 18, 2019 By Barry Duke
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FOLLOWING her humiliating failure to shut down a Drag Queen Story Hour in Florida this month, the poisonous Elizabeth Johnston, aka the ‘Activist Mommy’, is now trying to rally support for a New Jersey mayor who opposes a new law that requires school to teach about the positive contributions made to society by gay people. After Mayor Alfonso Cirulli, a former teacher and assistant principal, called the LGBT movement “an affront to almighty God” and said that anyone who supports… Read more
August 17, 2019
UK schools are accused of shirking their duty to teach RE
August 17, 2019 By Barry Duke
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FORMER RE teacher Ed Pawson, above, now Education Officer for the Diocese of Exeter, is lamenting the fact that fewer students are choosing to study religious education at A-level. Commenting on new figures that reveal a two-year drop of 28.9 percent of students choosing the subject, Pawson noted: Data shows a third of schools are not teaching RE properly. He wants more pressure to be put on education watchdog Ofted to: Take more notice when they inspect schools as to whether schools… Read more
August 17, 2019
‘Gay bus’ row: Christian Legal Centre enters the fray
August 17, 2019 By Barry Duke
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EARLIER this month a bus driver in the UK city of Norwich was suspended for refusing to drive a bus that ‘promotes homosexuality’ by having its service number displayed in rainbow colours. We now learn via Church Militant that Andrea Minichiello Williams, Chief Executive of the Christian Legal Centre and Champion of Persecuted Jesusites Everywhere, inset, has weighed in, saying: If the driver’s objection to the rainbow colours was based on his religious or philosophical beliefs, it is illegal for… Read more
August 16, 2019
Leading US abuse lawyer launches two lawsuits against JWs
August 16, 2019 By Barry Duke
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A LAW that came into effect in New York this week temporarily lifts the statute of limitations for civil suits alleging abuse, regardless of the age of the plaintiff or how long ago the abuse allegedly occurred. The Child Victims Act, according to Newsweek, opened the way for attorney Irwin Zalkin, above, to announce at a press conference that he was launching two lawsuits against eight members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses Governing Body on behalf of Heather Steele and Michael Ewing, who… Read more
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