As June ushers in the arrival of “Wedding Season,” the air is filled with sounds of wedding bells, or in our community, the joyous smashing of glass. But millions of Americans are waiting for a United States Supreme Court decision that could determine whether the chimes of freedom ring equally for all Americans. At stake…
On February 27, the United States Supreme Court hid behind legal technicalities to give its stamp of approval to a heartless policy that goes against what we stand for as a country. As Justice Breyer said in his dissent, the outcome violates the Constitution’s Fifth and Eighth Amendments.The case, Jennings v. Rodriguez, involves class actions…
On February 1, 2018, the Forward’s Editor in Chief Jane Eisner will sit down with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — and she wants to ask the questions our readers want to have answered! Now’s your chance: send them our way. Loading…
Originally posted February 1, 2017. Updated March 22, 2017. On January 31, President Donald Trump announced that he will nominate Judge Neil Gorsuch, 49, to the Supreme Court. The vacancy in the nation’s highest court was created by the sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia on February 13, 2016. Gorsuch is currently a federal appellate…
President Donald Trump laced into Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal over his military service record, after the lawmaker met with Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch and said Gorsuch had criticized the president’s recent statements about judges as “demoralizing” and “disheartening.” Sen.Richard Blumenthal, who never fought in Vietnam when he said for years he had (major lie),now…
As Republicans and Democrats draw their battle lines over the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch as a Supreme Court associate justice, so do Jewish activists. Those on the right are encouraged by Gorsuch’s judicial record, which indicates a willingness to allow expressions of religion even at the expense of lowering the wall separating church and…
The jury’s decision to execute Dylann Roof for killing nine unarmed people in a historically black Charleston church may create its own problems for the state of South Carolina. As recently as last year, Bryan Stirling, director of the South Carolina Department of Corrections, was deprived of the means to prepare a lethal injection cocktail,…
The pursuit of justice is a fundamental Jewish value and a prerequisite to the world we strive to create. Last week, as a part of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW)’s #DoYourJob campaign, I spoke out with other leaders of faith-based organizations about the need to give US Supreme Court nominee Judge Merrick Garland…
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