Like many Jewish Louisianans, I followed with interest the so-called “Ten Commandments” bill which Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed into law this week. It requires public schools, including ...
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A granite monument of the Ten Commandments on Texas State Capitol grounds in Austin, Texas. (Photo via Library of Congress. Design by Jackie Hajdenberg via JTA>org.) Jackie Hajdenberg Three Jewish ...
A push for religious symbols in the public square is “bad for having a culture in which lots of different religious traditions including Judaism are allowed to flourish.” One week after Louisiana Gov.
But after a decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, who knows? That court has announced, and likely sent toward a ...
The Texas Senate has approved a bill requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms in public schools. This follows hard on the heels of a similar bill in Louisiana that is presently ...
The Establishment Clause creates a wall that separates church and state. Nowhere is that more important than in public schools.
Earlier this summer, Republican Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed into law a requirement that all public classrooms display the Ten Commandments. Broadly similar laws are moving through ...
I have three children in the Houston Independent School District. If this law is allowed to go into effect, my kids would be subjected to these scriptural displays for more than 1,200 hours over the ...
I’ll start my thought on Shav’uot with a bit of “Adult Education” and then to a thought that addresses the inner life. “Decalogue” in Exodus 34:28 came into English as “ten verses” in the Tyndale ...
Three Jewish families are among a group of nine Louisiana families with children in public schools who have filed a suit in federal court challenging a new state law that requires the Ten Commandments ...
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