The One With Aldacron

The number of fundamentalist Jews in Israel has been increasing for years, but now it seems to be coming to a point that the secular people of the world should be worried. Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community has come a long way. No longer are they the inward-looking anti-Zionists who only cared that the government provide [...]

I’ve seen this embedded on a few different blogs now. Just too funny.

My number two biggest gripe about religion, number one being that the religious try to shove their silly beliefs down everyone else’s throats, is that the religious think they are somehow privileged and that their needs and wants should always be attended to at the expense of others who do not adhere to their beliefs. [...]

One of the biggest problems with religious fundamentalists is that they are determined to halt social and cultural progress. Most would probably be content if we were all living in caves, beating each other to death with clubs. Usually, it’s the Christians and Muslims calling for social regression. Now, a group of Jewish rabbis have [...]

Last month, an American-Israeli woman who was taking a bus to the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City got a taste of religious fundamentalism. A group of ultra-orthodox men who boarded the bus beat her because she refused to sit in the back. Most of the witnesses to the incident are hostile toward the woman, [...]