Michael A. Helfand is an expert on religious law and religious liberty. He is currently the Brenden Mann Foundation Chair in Law and Religion at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law, Visiting Professor and Oscar M. Ruebhausen Distinguished Fellow at Yale Law School, and Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute. He is also Senior Legal Advisor to the Orthodox Union’s Teach Coalition.
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.
Groff v. DeJoy is looking to expand the religious accommodations employers must provide
Only 4 years after the "baker case," another Colorado resident claims providing services to LGBTQ couples violates her rights
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