Tag: Religious Freedom
‘We the People’ begin to speak
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his family packed their bags Monday night for their vacation on the Golan Heights.
The police also made their routine preparations. They set up a water cannon outside the...
New Jersey Supreme Court: Religious schools have right to ‘teachers who follow their faith’
The Supreme Court of New Jersey decided on Monday in favor of a Roman Catholic elementary school, which fired an unmarried teacher who became pregnant, citing a violation of its employment agreement.
Victoria Crisitello, an art teacher...
UN’s point man on religious freedom has released his plan for combating anti-Semitism
U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief Ahmed Shaheed presented a historic report in 2019 on global anti-Semitism as a human rights concern. His creation of the first stand-alone report on anti-Semitism by a...
US State Department cites Jerusalem-based monitor’s findings on PA textbooks
A U.S. State Department report on June 2 features research by a Jerusalem-based monitor of educational material in Palestinian Authority textbooks and their systematic messaging regarding the promotion of violence, martyrdom and jihad.
Research by...
Gantz to Arab ambassadors: Israel fostering regional ties, enabling prayer in Jerusalem
Israel is taking “unprecedented measures” to safeguard Muslim freedom of worship at the Temple Mount in Old City Jerusalem, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz told ambassadors from Arab countries at an Iftar dinner on...
European Union implements new strategy to address serious rise in anti-Semitism
Acknowledging that most European Jews do not feel safe in their home countries, the European Commission released a report on Tuesday outlining strategies to combat anti-Semitism and encourage the growth of Jewish life there.
At...
Jewish groups urge public funding for private schools ahead of Supreme Court case
Several Jewish groups have filed friend-of-the-court briefs in support of a case that could determine whether public funding could be given to parochial schools for secular education.
In Carson V. Makin, parents of parochial-school students argued...
Why is support for ‘freedom of worship for Jews’ on the Temple Mount so...
Maybe it was just the product of the ongoing civil war between the different political parties on the Israeli right. Or maybe it was just time that an Israeli prime minister said something that,...
Will the war on kashrut merge with the war on meat?
Many Americans spent their Fourth of July holiday at barbecues with family and friends. For observant Jews, that meant that plenty of kosher hot dogs and hamburgers were grilled and consumed as the country’s...
EU court upholds Belgian ban on kosher ritual slaughter
The European Court of Justice upheld a Belgian ban on religious slaughter, including kosher ritual slaughter without stunning, in a ruling released on Thursday.
The E.U. court ruled that the laws requiring animals to be stunned enable “a fair...