Bloodshed Returns to Jenin
A city scarred by memories of a massacre that never happened.
June 1, 2022
The Supreme Court Will Soon Decide Whether Praying in Public Schools is a Firing Offense
The Court may overturn longstanding “precedents that promote government hostility toward religion.”
“In April,” Vincent Phillip Muñoz writes, “the Court heard oral arguments in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, a case involving a football coach at a public high school who lost his job after repeatedly kneeling on the 50-yard line in post-game prayer.” Muñoz notes that school officials had good reason to believe that the coach’s conduct violated tests used by the Supreme Court to enforce the Constitution’s establishment clause. This case, he argues, presents an opportunity to overturn harmful and erroneous precedents regarding “what constitutes a prohibited establishment of religion.”
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Iraq’s Parliament Just Passed a Law Criminalizing Ties with Israel
Even though it was already a capital offense.
The ADL Keeps Failing to Identify Anti-Semitism on the Left
The group’s new “outreach director” downplays and excuses Palestinian terrorism.
The Supreme Court Will Soon Decide Whether Praying in Public Schools is a Firing Offense
The Court may overturn longstanding “precedents that promote government hostility toward religion.”
How Yiddish Became the Language of Political Organizing for Russian Jews
Smuggled political literature from Jewish New Yorkers helped.