No Probe of Rabbi Who Called Jews to Avoid Christmas Tree

Israel’s state prosecutor will not open an investigation against a university rabbi for telling students to avoid the student union in a campus building because it had the “pagan” symbol of a Christmas tree inside. Rabbi Elad Dokow, of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, made the remarks last December. “The Christmas tree is a religious…

MK Aida Touma-Sliman (Hadash) during a visit to the city of Lod with the Committee against Racism

Racist MK Smotrich Ousted from Knesset Meeting after Denouncing Interreligious Marriages

A heated debate took place on Monday afternoon, November 14, during a meeting of the Knesset Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality, after racist HaBayit HaYehudi (Jewish Home) lawmaker, Bezalel Smotrich spoke out against interreligious marriages and defended an Orthodox organization that had reportedly acted against mixed marriages between Jewish women and…