[nuconvert]

Ynetnews is the English-language sister-site to Ynet, Israel’s largest and most popular news and content website.

Ynetnews is part of the prominent Yedioth Media Group, which publishes Yedioth Ahronoth – Israel’s most widely-read daily newspaper – as well as several popular magazines and dozens of local publications.

As such, Ynetnews is committed to the same professional standards and unwavering journalistic ethics as Ynet and Yedioth Ahronoth, as well as to being an authoritative, accurate and fast source of online news and content

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3028645,00.html

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thanks for the perspective on Ynet and Ynet News. It sounds like they're a usually credible source--- at least, a prominent source. That certainly is disturbing.

Nevertheless, as written, the article boils down to "one guy said/ but the other guy said". The court manager says the stoning sentence was for real. The rabbinical judge, Levin, denies it. If Levin's right, then he's been slandered. If he's wrong, then he's a liar. Wouldn't there be a written court record?

[hellbender]

I really don't know anything about that publication, but is it possible that this story was promulgated by secular Israeli JINOs to discredit their orthodox countrymen, much the way the MSM slanders evangelical Christians here in the U.S., portraying them as anti-scientific snake-handlers, etc.?

(It's obvious to me that there is an enormous philosophical gulf between faithful Jews and the Leftist Labor types in Israel.)