What Europeans Don’t Understand about Anti-Semitism
Jews feel safer in Orban’s Hungary than in Macron’s France.
January 29, 2019
New York, New Jersey, and California Should Increase Their Protections for Religious Freedom
Jews would benefit from state versions of the RFRA.
In 1993, Congress passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which provides a general exemption from laws that place an unnecessary burden on the free exercise of religion. Since the RFRA only applies to federal laws, many states have passed their own version of it, but several states with large Jewish populations have not. In New York, many Orthodox Jewish schools are currently protesting new regulations on private education that, they argue, threaten their freedom to structure religious education as they see fit. A state RFRA could have prevented the resulting conflict, note Mitchell Rocklin and Howard Slugh, and would benefit religious Jews in other ways as well:
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Israel Is Right to Take Responsibility for Its Attacks in Syria
Clear red lines are better than the pretense of ambiguity.
New York, New Jersey, and California Should Increase Their Protections for Religious Freedom
Jews would benefit from state versions of the RFRA.
The Portuguese Diplomat Who Saved Thousands of Jews from the Nazis
Aristides de Sousa Mendes.
In Putting Ultra-Orthodox Jews on Screen, Comedy Works Better Than Tragedy
Explaining the success of Shtisel.