A new New York law requires museums to label art looted by Nazis — but is it constitutional?
Some legal scholars say the law is an example of ‘compelled speech’ and may violate the First Amendment
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Community Does upholding the law require punishment? Rabbinic tradition says no
Can the law unite us, inspire us, and keep us safe? As American institutions become politicized – from the NFL to the CDC – so too the law: the politics around policing, cash bail, and both recent and impending Supreme Court nomination hearings (to name but a few instances) have diminished the law’s ability to…
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News Is It Anti-Semitism, Or NIMBYism? Lawsuits Multiply As Towns Struggle With Growing Orthodox Population
On a county road south of the Haredi hub of Lakewood, N.J., sits an old egg farm that is at the heart of a lawsuit over anti-Semitism that could seriously impact a suburban town’s bottom line. The farm, dormant since about 2005, is one of a dwindling number of undeveloped lots in an area that…
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Opinion Opinion | The Surprising New Battleground In the War Against Palestinian Rights: Your Local Courthouse
On November 26, 2018, a New York-based lawyer named David Abrams announced that he had filed a lawsuit against Airbnb over its decision to stop providing services in West Bank settlements. Abrams filed the lawsuit on behalf of a “Jewish-owned” Israeli corporation based in “Judea and Samaria” — more commonly known as the West Bank…
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Community Justice Brandeis Was Right About Technology — 90 Years Before The Courts
Of the rulings that the Supreme Court handed down in its end-of-the-term rush, Carpenter v. United States (June 22, 2018) will prove to have the most far-reaching impact. The justices, by a 5-4 vote, held that the Constitution requires police to obtain a search warrant before gaining access to personal data that carriers collect from…
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Community America’s Legal System Is Rife With Injustice — And Jews Need To Help Fix It
Troubled greatly these days by the injustices all around us, I sat in synagogue some weeks back and came once again upon the ritual of the Sotah: the bizarre, seemingly barbaric procedure employed in Biblical times to placate a man consumed by suspicion over his wife’s unfaithfulness. Is it curious why he is so jealous?…
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Opinion A Matter Of Conscience: Why I Support The Sanctuary Movement
In the early days of the Trump administration, I wrote an essay expressing serious reservations about the modest but growing movement by churches and synagogues to offer aid and housing to undocumented immigrants. Since then, America has changed, and so have I. My initial unease was not because of what “sanctuary” tries to do, I…
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Community Explainer: What Is The Nation-State Bill? Why Is It A Big Deal?
What is the Nation-State Bill? The Nation-State Bill is a proposed Basic Law that would anchor Israel’s status as the national homeland of the Jewish people. The bill clauses contain, for example, the “Law of Return,” state symbols, Jewish festivals and the Hebrew language. It is Israel’s first attempt to constitutionally anchor its identity in…
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