Michael A. Helfand is the Brenden Mann Foundation Chair in Law and Religion at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law; Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor at Yale Law School; Senior Legal Advisor to the Teach Coalition; and Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute.
Religious liberty, school choice and tax exemption are on the docket
The Supreme Court case that could open the door to publicly funded Jewish day schools hinges on this question, an attorney writes
The ruling suggests that a Jewish right to abortion is no longer merely a theoretical argument in the United States
Without receiving a Jewish divorce document, Jewish law prohibits women from remarrying
The court issued relatively modest decisions on behalf of the worker seeking Sundays off and the anti-LGBTQ+ web designer
The decision in Groff v. DeJoy will have a significant impact on American Jews and other religious minorities who require accommodation of their religious practices
A group of Jewish parents and schools are fighting California for equal access to government money
YU’s identification as a religious institution would not render it ineligible for the state funds in question, raising serious questions about why this whole kerfuffle got started in the first place.
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