Nathan Lewin Archives

Nathan Lewin

Yale University Law School in New Haven, Conn. Credit: Juan Paulo Gutierrez/Flickr.

Yale respects the traditional values of Muslims but not Jews

A tale of two policies: The religious rights denied to Jews by Yale in 1998 have now been granted to Muslims in 2023.

Nathan Lewin

April 5, 2023

It’s about time to ‘shackle’ Israel’s Supreme Court

The court is primarily responsible for the criticism that now calls for a legislative remedy.

Nathan Lewin

January 9, 2023

New York’s haredi kids can get better secular classes without government threats

Voluntary supplementary secular public education within or near the Chassidic yeshivahs is preferable to interminable litigation.

Nathan Lewin

September 15, 2022

U.S. Supreme Court building. Photo by Brandon Bourdages/Shutterstock.

Why Yeshiva University has a First Amendment right to deny official status to an LGBTQ student group

Its legal argument is straightforward: New York’s law against gender discrimination may not force an institution committed to religious values to issue a stamp of approval for conduct that violates the institution’s religious commands.

Nathan Lewin

September 8, 2022

Ketanji Brown Jackson. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

How will Justice Jackson treat Israel and Judaism?

Two rulings issued by Jackson while she was a district judge have garnered little notoriety, but they are, for America’s Jews, grounds for optimism.

Nathan Lewin

April 6, 2022

Chiune Sugihara at his desk in Vilnius, Lithuania. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

The Sugihara exclusion: Israel bites the hand that fed Jews

Israeli bureaucrats have denied visas for the son of a righteous gentile to attend a Jerusalem ceremony in his father’s honor.

Nathan Lewin

October 8, 2021

Beth Israel Congregation in Ann Arbor, Mich. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

The court decision that is a clear and present danger to America’s Jews

The voracious wolf of rank Jew-hatred is cloaked in the sheep’s fleece of “American-Israeli relations.”

Nathan Lewin

September 20, 2021

Headquarters of “The Washington Post.” Credit: DCStockPhotography/Shutterstock.

America does not have the ‘horrible past’ of Germany

How can a writer in “The Washington Post” even begin to compare the two histories?

Nathan Lewin

June 7, 2021

Candles from a Hanukkah menorah. Credit: tomertu/Shutterstock.

Can a village attorney claim ignorance of the law?

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.”

Nathan Lewin

April 13, 2021

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