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June 12, 2019

The Equality Act Could Prove a Threat to Religious Jews

A Jewish school seeking to hire a female teacher would have to consider candidates who “identify as female.”

Recently passed by the House of Representatives, the bill known as the Equality Act seeks to protect homosexuals and transsexuals from bigotry and discrimination. But, argue Yaakov Menken and Monica Burke, if passed it would inevitably intrude on the freedoms of religious traditionalists, and perhaps of Orthodox Jews in particular:

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