Published in April 2008 in “The Humanist” but the following is as Epicurean as it is Humanist: Do not kill: – No nation shall go to war against another nation unless first attacked in a clear act of aggression. No state shall join in a war except when authorized to do so by responsible global …
Rabbi Haim Kanyevsky told yeshiva administrators, “We are war with them [Arabs],” therefore “according to Jewish law it is prohibited to hire them,” according to Yom Chadash. Yeshiva administrators, after the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva attack, asked Kanyevsky whether they should fire their Arab employees. Kanyevsky, who expressed surprise that Arab workers were preferred to Jews, …
The spiritual leader of Israel’s ultra-orthodox Shas party, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, has provoked outrage with a sermon calling for the annihilation of Arabs. “It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable,” he was quoted as saying in a sermon delivered to …
More than 900,000 names are on America’s terrorist watch list, including at one time Senator Edward Kennedy (now grievously sick). I demand to know: am I on the watch list? If not, why not? Â I should be because I wrote a play called DubyaBaba and the Forty Thieves, the apogee of a wildly successful …
A soldier called Jeremy Hall has filed a lawsuit alleging that he’s been harassed and his constitutional rights have been violated because he doesn’t believe in God. The suit names Defense Secretary Robert Gates. “I’m not in it for cash,” Hall said. “I want no one else to go what I went through.” Known as …
