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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.

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Did American taxpayers finance Hamas’s massacre of Jews?

American courts must stop stonewalling and hold pro-terrorist “charities” accountable.

October 18, 2023

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

September 20, 2021

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America does not have the ‘horrible past’ of Germany

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

June 7, 2021