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Nathan Lewin

Nathan Lewin is a Washington, D.C., attorney with a Supreme Court practice who has taught at leading national law schools including Harvard, Columbia, Georgetown and the University of Chicago.

Israeli bureaucrats have denied visas for the son of a righteous gentile to attend a Jerusalem ceremony in his father’s honor.
The voracious wolf of rank Jew-hatred is cloaked in the sheep’s fleece of “American-Israeli relations.”
How can a writer in “The Washington Post” even begin to compare the two histories?
Members of a Florida village raised legal objections to the display of a menorah in a public square. I responded by writing that “Miami Shores would be joining many other communities if it authorized the display of a Chabad Hanukkah menorah.”
Within 14 days of the panel’s decision, Arkansas’s Attorney General may request that the full array of active Circuit Judges of the 8th Circuit review the decision in what lawyers call an “en banc rehearing.”
A precedent that has, for the past 43 years, doomed Shomrei Shabbos who have been denied jobs or whose employers have refused to respect their religious observance is about to be overruled.
“Democracy denial,” declare two well-known members of the American Jewish community, is equivalent to Holocaust denial.
Jewish law was sensitive to animal welfare long before Western civilization—typified by the European Court of Justice—ever recognized it as a concern worthy of human attention.
No barrier should be imposed that might cast a shadow over the fairness of a contest or for an individual to compete.
No one will ever know whether a randomly selected group of Israelis would have charged the Israeli prime minister with committing crimes if Israel had a grand-jury procedure.
Mendel Epstein and Jay Goldstein were encouraged by the FBI’s “sting” to travel to New Jersey to use violence, only if needed, to induce a fictional husband to authorize a Jewish divorce for a female FBI agent who had been trained to simulate an “agunah.”
What is surprising, however, is that the Israeli public—not thought to be easily dominated—accepts boundless judicial rule.