Hamas: Teaching Human Rights is Against Palestinian, Islamic Culture

Palestinian schoolchildren in the Gaza Strip have been denied the opportunity to learn about human rights after the Hamas government determined that such a subject “dangerously contravenes Palestinian and Islamic culture.” Hamas’s announcement came in response to an attempt by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to include a course on human rights […]

Quebec Jews Decry Proposed Religious Symbols Ban

Religious Symbols

“You shall observe My statutes and My ordinances, which a man shall do and live by them. I am the Lord.” (Leviticus 18:5) A proposed ban on “ostentatious religious symbols” in the Canadian province of Quebec has the Jewish community concerned.  Under the province’s proposed Charter of Quebec Values, designed to preserve the province’s secular […]