NEW YORK – An Orthodox rabbi is accused of telling a woman he would help her convert to Judaism if she had sex with him and his friends. According to the blog Failed Messiah, Rabbi Leib Tropper of Rockland County told Shannon Orand, a 32-year-old gentile who was interested in becoming a Jew: “If you fulfill my needs, I’ll fulfill yours — and you need a conversion.”
The Post reports that Orand recorded a conversation in which the rabbi urged her to have sex and participate in phone sex with his friends including an individual called “the Satmar guy.” He purportedly told the woman, who he called “darling” and “cutie pie,” that he “could role-play a rape…but I couldn’t actually rape you — you know what I’m saying, darling — does that make sense?” Read the rest of this entry »
EGYPT – A kit produced in China that simulates the breaking of a hymen has caused controversy after conservative leaders claimed it broke Islamic laws.
MIAMI, FLORIDA – Stop us if you’ve heard this one.
An art restorer at the Louvre was tasked with restoring Nicolas Poussin’s 17th century painting “Hymenaios Disguised as a Woman During an Offering to Priapus,” which shows the god of marriage (Hymenaois) giving a gift to the god of fertility (Priapus). 
