Picture, if you will, a country in which people are forced to be wed and to divorce in religious courts; are unable to marry someone of a different religion; where religious legislation forces a certain weekday as the day of rest and prohibits the opening of most businesses; where state-funded public transportation operates buses in [...]
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Many a word was written on the topic of the GLBT teen gathering shooting in Tel Aviv. Here, at IsraLeft, we’ve covered the issue extensively: Maital’s words, defined by Chris Geidner of Law Dork as “Crushing”, and then Or’s post explaining why this is, indeed, a hate crime, followed by Elad’s educating post about the [...] Two other posts about the Attack on Gay Israeli youth were recently published on this blog: by Or Bareket and by Maital Rozenboim A grave thing happened in Israel last night. A terrible thing happened, in Tel-Aviv of all places. It was vile, but not particularly surprising. Tel-Aviv is considered a gay-friendly city, and that is [...] After yesterday’s shooting there were a lot of fingers pointed towards religious parliament members, reminding them of their harsh words on the LGBT community – anything from calling them an abomination to accusing them of causing earthquakes and calling to treat them as one should treat the swine flu. Some people on the other [...] |
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