Hate filled Muslims gob off in Pittsburgh – It’s time for Jews to wake up to the threat posed by Islam
Late last year I attended a memorial service organised by a Jewish group in a Midlands town following the horrific attack by an anti-Semite…
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It is a moral imperative that we protect the ex Muslims
If we believe in freedom of religion as a moral position then that means we must protect those who face violence or threats of…
Welcoming the critical eye on Islam that ex Muslims provide and some thoughts on an important aspect of Islamic theology
As anybody who is a regular reader of this blog will understand, I have immense respect for ex Muslims. I respect their strength of…
Ex Muslim humour – Christmas edition
It must take a lot to be an ex Muslim or a questioning Muslim, what with the problems that some ex Muslims and heterodox…
Happy New Year to all this blog’s Jewish readers
At sunset tonight the Jewish festival of Rosh Hashanah starts and goes on for some, depending on what Jewish denomination you are, until Tuesday night…
Guest Post – Interview with a nervous Jew at Speaker’s Corner
This is the second of two articles from today’s Guest Poster, Joshua Winston. In this piece he interviews an Orthodox Jewish man at Speaker’s…
The Great British Jewish (Community) Question? Who do we as a community want to be governed by?
The British Jewish community has a question that it needs to ask of itself and that question is do we want our communal organisations,…
Rabbi ‘Meshugener’ opens his mouth about ‘refugees’.
Meshuga, also Meshugge, Meshugah, Meshuggah: Crazy (Yiddish משגע meshuge, from Hebrew məšugga‘) (OED, MW). Also used as the nouns meshuggener and meshuggeneh for a…
Two festivals, two faiths, different outcomes.
Today is the second day of the Jewish festival of Shavout. It marks the belief among Jews that it was on this day that…
Rabbi Baginsky you are wrong. Parents must have the right to withdraw their children from school lessons about Islam.
As a non-Orthodox Jew of the political centre-right, I find myself in a position of increasing opposition to the virulent, authoritarian and sometimes dangerous…
