Baptism by water torture

Join Amnesty International’s campaign against torture. Click here for more details Religious practices have often been tied to violence and torture, but this connection is often hidden within public discourse. That is the situation in the United States with the...

The rhetoric and the reality of terror

I sat in the Jerusalem Hotel restaurant on Sunday 27 January 2008 and read the headline in the Israeli newspaper, Ha’aretz, “Yeshiva counselor who killed terrorists lives to tell the tale.” In that article Elyakim Kovatch, the counselor who shot two...