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Wednesday May 12, 2010
Elior Chen: 
The acts of abuse include violently throwing the children around by their arms and legs, leaving a child in an electric oven until his hair burned, placing a child in a suitcase for three days, feeding a child excrement and other extreme acts of abuse. The cult leader’s trial is still ongoing.
Tuesday December 29, 2009
Religious Persecution: 
A Christian of Jewish origin who has been attacked on the streets here four times because of his faith in Christ is seeking police protection. Jerusalem resident Yossi Yomtov said police have been slow to investigate hate crimes against him by youths wearing kippahs, cloth skullcaps typically worn by observant Jews. In two of the attacks a youth plied him with pepper spray and stun gun shocks, he said.
Wednesday December 23, 2009
Human Rights Violations • Israel: 
Security forces of Israel’s immigration service broke into an African church in Tel Aviv damaging the ceiling and detaining several worshipers, news reports said Tuesday, December 22. Immigration officers gathered everyone on the premises and detained those who did not hold papers with a request for refugee status, Haaretz reported. It was not immediately clear how many people were detained.
Tuesday November 17, 2009
Judaism • Religious Fanaticism: 
Israel has charged Jack [Yaakov] Teitel, a Jewish-American extremist, with shooting to death two Palestinians and trying to kill others, including a Messianic Jewish family, who received a booby-trapped package in March 2008 that left their son critically injured.Saturday October 3, 2009
Messianic Jews: 
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. An official at the Interior Ministry said that an anti-assimilation group called Yad L’Achim was working with the ministry to prevent Messianic Jews — known as Jews for Jesus — from being allowed to live in Israel, which they consider their spiritual home.
Friday September 4, 2009
Hate Groups • Islam: 
An art exhibit depicting various female Palestinian suicide bombers as the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus, which opened at the Sokolov House press center in Tel Aviv on Thursday, was quickly taken down following an outcry from the families of those killed or wounded in the attacks, as well as by organizations that represent terror victims.Wednesday March 25, 2009
Paganism: 
Like many other soldiers who took part in the Gaza operation, Omer, 20, occasionally took a few moments to pray, but he did not pray to the Lord of Israel.Omer considers himself pagan, and has sworn allegiance to three ancient gods. During combat, he says they appeared before him, giving him strength during the most arduous moments.
The soldier is part of a tiny community of pagans that has developed in Israel
Monday June 23, 2008
Judaism • Messianic Jews: A crude bomb, burned Bibles, a torched church… Israeli Jews who claim they believe Jesus is the Messiah are subject to harassment, persecution and police indifference.
Monday June 16, 2008
Messianic Jews • Religious Intolerance: 
The burning of 200 New Testament bibles underscores growing tensions in the Jewish state between the mainstream religion and Christian Zionists.It was the latest in a string of incidents targeting Messianic Jews in Israel, a trend that has alarmed Christian Zionist organizations.Thursday May 22, 2008
Religious Intolerance: Israeli authorities and Orthodox Jews frown on missionary activity aimed at Jews, though in most cases it is not illegal. Still, the concept of a Jew burning books is abhorrent to many in Israel because of the association with Nazis torching piles of Jewish books during the Holocaust of World War II.
Thursday August 16, 2007
Scientology: According to the Tel Aviv center, there a few hundred Scientologists and thousands of Scientology students in Israel. Of late, the organization seems to be on a roll, thanks mainly to the leaders’ determination to recruit opinion makers: celebrities and businesspeople.
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