A Jew is a Jew is a Jew.

... Wow.

Is that necessary?

Absolutely not!

Women wearing short sleeves, and dogs, are to be RESPECTED!

That was one of the Stupid News I have ever heard in my life

I was in shock when I read it , how stupid can someone been , I was expecting this from a country with very big problems and stupid Leaders like North Korea

But not in Israel.... how stupid people or judges could be there to allow that

Oh no....not genocidal, war criminal, racist Israel.....not THEM.

lol.

Its from a rabbinic judge in the most backwards fundamentalist part of the most backward and fundamentalist city in Israel This is not a secular judge, and the Rabbinic Judge is already on his way to being censured. Far from owning the act and acting with impunity, popular opinion has already forced him to back down if he ever ordered this n the first place.

This is a major systematic problem though in that whackos like this are given power through the rabbinic courts, but I think you will be mistaken if you believe the Israeli legal system will stand behind this ruling (then again with the power the Ultra Orthodox wield it just might).

well I take back the part about Jerusalem being the most backward, Jerusalem is diverse other backward ares are not

Whew...that was a close one, Solomon.

The Jew police almost got you.

shlomo, not solomon

everyone has their nutcases. is this any worse mapleleaf, than what your fellow hosers are doing vancouver? is this any worse than what happens to many ethnic minorities in many places on a regular basis?

I do not advocate cruelty towards animals, but do a bunch of whack-jobs need to be considered so important?

Actually, these whack-jobs are incredibly important. The two fastest growing groups in Israel are the ultra-Orthodox types like these people and Palestinians. As time goes by any hope for any peace agreement fades considerably. Orthodox lunatics who at best would only accept a Palestinian state consisting of an archipelago of bantustans (if that) will gain more and more political power as they keep having buckets of children as secular Jews have very few. At the same time, Palestinians who are citizens of Israel will get more power as their population grows and will likely take a much harder line on things like the right of return. So the two groups in Israel who can do the most to damage to it are the ones growing the very fastest.

It's probably not quite too late for a peace agreement, but that time is coming fast.

Rabbinic = infected with rabies?

Invictus - You fail to realize that the vast (99.5%) majority of ultra-orthodox jews have their heads screwed on far better than these wackos.
P.S. The Ultra-Orthodox have a high enough birth-rate that arab israelis are not growing in share of population.

April fool for the atheist community?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2011/06/story_removal.html
You may have noticed a headline in our "most popular" module about a dog being condemned to stoning in Israel. It was followed a few days later by a denial: Jerusalem court denies dog condemned by stoning. The first story has now been taken down. This is not a step we often take so I wanted to explain why we have done so on this occasion. We based our article on sources we have used in the past: Ynet, a popular Israeli website, and the news agency AFP. What we did not know when we wrote the story was that the Israeli Hebrew-language newspaper Maariv had already published a retraction and an apology. We failed to make the right checks. We should never have written the article and apologise for any offence caused. We have kept the story carrying the denial in the interests of transparency.

Funny though that one can never tell the real stories from the fake ones.

@Manganese
Unfortunately the BBC has not been having a good time lately on differentiating between the truth and lies.

I mean in general. Every time you hear a story about some crazy religious people, you can never tell if it's a hoax or the real thing.

That is the trouble with crazy people in general of course, and unsubstantiated stories in particular. What is actually much more revealing is who seizes on them and uses them to promote their own agenda.

I guess the blind hen will find some corn from time to time.

@Manganese
I love those old proverbs too. Indeed your particular choice provokes me to remember several examples from my infant school days. Thank you so much for bringing back such happy memories. I am sure that you will pleased to hear, however, that I will be keeping them to myself, I wouldn't want to impose them on you.

Actually I'd be interested to hear about your school for infants.

I am sure that we could swap many happy stories and, indeed, proverbs, but perhaps another time and place would be better?

No time like the present.

I initially mis-read this as: "Rabbits condemn dog to death by stoning"