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"JERUSALEM (AP) -- An Israeli court has ruled that shops can sell leavened bread during Passover in violation of Jewish religious law, deepening tensions between observant and secular Jews ahead of the weeklong holiday."

It's a problem, it seems, for the orthodox that non-orthodox (and others) can get access to leavened bread. I don't understand it really, since the freedom to practice religion is supposed to be an essential tenant of Israels existence. So why the hate? And it is hate, when you threaten to burn down the local pizza place if they choose to try and earn a living during the holiday.

''The argument is not about the law,'' said Yehuda Meshi-Zehav, a spokesman for the ultra-Orthodox community. ''It's about people trying to keep Israel as a Jewish country, and people trying to make it the opposite.''

Horseshit. Until Israel kicks out everyone who chooses other than orthodoxy then its simple discrimination to force everyone to conform. Last I checked Israel was a Democracy, and part of that requires equal respect on both sides of an issue.