A group of Charedi schools face disciplinary measures from Britain’s education regulator Ofsted for refusing to teach LGBT awareness – and rightly so, as their stance is promoting discrimination. Homophobia is not a lifestyle choice. It’s a form of hatred and discrimination. So that’s the charge that must be levelled at the Orthodox Jewish schools in the UK that are wilfully breaking the instructions... 

Five orthodox Jews have appeared in court in London charged with several criminal counts including laundering cash from the sale of fake and unlicensed medicines after more than £19 million passed through their accounts, according to a report in the Daily Mail. According to the newspaper, prosecutors say counterfeit medication was bought in European countries such as Germany, Austria and France before... 

Rockland County in New York have been forced to declare a medical state of emergency after vaccine-refusing Orthodox Jews brought the disease back to America after visiting Israel, state officials have confirmed. Citing pockets of resistance that are impeding the county’s efforts to stem a measles outbreak that has risen to 153 cases since October, Rockland officials declared a state of emergency... 

Israeli 'spitter' being carried away by Israeli authorities and left unpunished Father Samuel Aghoyan, a senior Armenian Orthodox cleric in Jerusalem’s Old City, says he’s been spat at by young haredi and national Orthodox Jews “about 15 to 20 times” in the past decade. The last time it happened, he said, was earlier this month. “I was walking back from the Church... 

David Lightman with his daughter, who was denied admission to the Jews' Free School because her mother's conversion was not recognized. But a court ruling has voided the admissions policy. The questions before the judges in Courtroom No. 1 of Britain’s Supreme Court were as ancient and as complex as Judaism itself. Who is a Jew? And who gets to decide? On the surface, the court was considering... 

Israel is using an ultra-Orthodox group to crack down on Messianic Jews — who believe that Jesus is the Messiah — and prevent them from staying in the country, officials have told The Times. The Messianic Jews have been accused of Christian missionary activities and complain of harassment and intimidation by the state. An official at the Interior Ministry said that an anti-assimilation group...