Singer Erez Yechiel, who performed in front of a “mixed audience” of men and women was lashed 39 times to make him “repent,” after a ruling by a self-described rabbinic court on Wednesday.

Stone-age cretin Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak, founder of the Shofar organization aimed at bringing Jews “back to religion” (hazara betshuva), has made it his recent mission to fight against musical performances for both men and women.
Yep, that’s the way to attract young folk “back to religion”!

In a video clip of the court posted on the Shofar Web site, Ben Zion said that those who make others sin (mahtiei rabim), such as artists who make men and women attend performances or dance together, have no place in the world to come.

I said “stone-age” but that was being too generous by far.

He displayed a leather strip he said was made by his father from ass and bull skin, with which Yechiel was to have been whipped.

What an unusually appropriate choice of material!

Yechiel, who said, “I accept upon myself the lashing for my sins,” was ordered to stand by a wooden poll with his head facing north (“from whence the evil inclination comes”), his hands tied with a azure-colored rope (“a symbol of mercy”), and served his “sentence.”

What an odious otiose superstition-soaked load of retarded infantile bollocks.

These imbeciles are physical adults! I wouldn’t even expect such obdurate magical non-thinking from a 5 year-old.

I can think of other performers who better deserve to be whipped for crimes against music.