To those outside Judaism, the issue is arcane, complex and doubtless baffling. It probably does not affect anyone else because of the unique conflation in... I am told that, in the upper echelons of the Conservative Shadow Cabinet, the sanguine conclusion has been reached that they can ‘live with a nuclear Iran’. I am also told that, in the Downing Street bunker, the Prime Minister is considering bestowing a peerage upon Dr Mohammed Abdul Bari, Secretary-General of the Muslim Council of Britain -- a man whose goal is the Islamisation of the UK – as a quid pro quo for the peerage given to the Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks. If true, these developments illustrate once again the lethal spinelessness of Britain’s political class.
Wednesday, 16th December 2009
An illiberal and ignorant judgment
1:00pm
So the Supreme Court has ruled against the JFS after all, which it has found guilty of racial discrimination. This judgment, handed down today, was the seminal case brought against the JFS, an Orthodox Jewish secondary school in London, by a parent whose child had been refused admission to the school on the grounds that the child was not recognised by orthodox Jewish precepts to be Jewish. This was because he had been born to a mother whose conversion to Judaism had been conducted under the auspices of the Masorti movement, a conversion which is not recognised by the Orthodox Jewish authorities which govern the JFS as having any status in Jewish religious law.Tuesday, 15th December 2009
White flag politics?
9:26am
Two disturbing reports reach me on the grapevine.
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
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