In Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, where the rule of law sometimes takes a back seat to the rule of God, zealots are on a campaign to stamp out behavior they consider unchaste. They hurl stones at women for such "sins" as wearing a red blouse, and attack stores selling devices that can access the Internet.
In recent weeks, self-styled "modesty patrols" have been accused of breaking into the apartment of a Jerusalem woman and beating her for allegedly consorting with men. They have torched a store that sells MP4 players, fearing devout Jews would use them to download pornography.
A group of survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse have warned they have received death threats...
Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist who participated in protests at Columbia University and was detained by...
Women carry children as Israeli forces forcibly displace them from Nur Shams refugee camp in the...
OHCHR condemned this week’s attacks as abhorrent and said they reflected a wider pattern of increased...
