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 …
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 …
Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to; or he cannot and does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. But, if God both can and wants to abolish evil, then …
Contributed by Jane Dean On the world news, I was listening to news about the fierce fighting between the Tamil Tigers and the Government forces in Sri Lanka. It was happening near a particular Catholic church in which there was a statue of the Virgin Mary, purported to be able to heal snake bites and …
