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“Administrations come and go,” Rabbi Yeruchim Silber, of Agudah, told JNS. “What’s to say a future administration or future Health & Hospitals won’t say, ‘We’ll do it differently?’”
The two-year agreement requires the company to pay the former employee $80,000 in back wages and $70,000 in damages and revise its religious-accommodation policies.
The Jewish, Italian, Irish and British “pioneers and people who built this city” want Bible-based American values, the Israeli consul general in New York told JNS. “They don’t want the Sharia laws.”
“Airports can no more offer Muslim-only bathroom spaces than they can maintain white-only bathrooms,” wrote Gov. Greg Abbott.
According to the complaint, the Zoning Board of Appeals of Banstable, Mass., stated that “there needs to be an overt religious act, and it can’t be only that the motivation is religious.”
A recent Israeli Supreme Court ruling suspended budget requests approved by the Knesset Finance Committee, leaving the Religious Services Ministry without a legally authorized source of funding for the site’s operations.
David Rosenberg-Wohl, who represents the plaintiffs, told JNS that “the state has no business selecting and promoting a particular faith as the faith that represents social justice, a political argument.”
“Of all the things left for Shlock Rock to do, this was one of them,” lead singer Lenny Solomon told JNS. “I had played Birmingham. I had played Montgomery, but I had never played Mobile.”
A new, vague provision to strip funding mid-year is keeping some nonprofits, including synagogues, from applying for funding, “leaving their institution vulnerable to attack,” the legislators wrote.
Gov. Greg Abbott is requesting a federal investigation of two Texas airports to see if “one subset of the population” is being given “special treatment based on religion.”
The Fellowship of Christian Athletes alleges that the Hopewell Valley Regional School District allows secular student clubs to invite outside mentors while barring religious clubs from doing so.
“They’ve done a lot of radical crazy stuff, but this goes beyond the pale,” Dov Hikind, a former New York state Assembly member, told JNS.
