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EU regulations state that member states can make exceptions for religious rituals, but such exemption are not required as a matter of religious freedom.
Isn’t now the time to pay attention to the numbers and the prospect of imminent additions?
RFRA is a federal law that prohibits the federal government from placing a “substantial burden” on an individual’s exercise of religion unless there is a “compelling” government interest in doing so and the government can demonstrate that there is no less onerous way of pursuing it.
Just last week, NYC Police Commissioner Dermot Shea lamented the drastic jump in shootings across the city.
I respect the incredible value of keeping traditions alive, especially those that centuries of persecution have sought to erase.
Does anyone believe that she and the original tweeter had a peaceful transition in mind?
Now, rightly or wrongly, over half of Republicans believe the 2020 presidential election was fatally corrupted and that the reported results in favor of Biden are, to put it simply, bogus.
Six months ago, the Supreme Court narrowly rejected challenges to virus-related restrictions on churches in California and Nevada which had argued that churches were prohibited from organizing gatherings in sizes permitted in commercial entities.
As most readers know, the life sentence itself was unprecedented for someone charged with passing classified information to an ally of the United States, a crime that ordinarily draws a sentence of 2 to 4 years. He was not charged with spying or treason.
Abbas has also recently called upon Palestinians to end their public criticism of the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and the Sudan over the normalization agreements they recently concluded with Israel.
Prior to the Trump order, under the Obama years, school administrators would merely conduct a fact-finding inquiry, interviewing all concerned but without the accused being able to confront the accuser.
On exactly what parallel universe has the former president been living? Put another way, exactly what didn’t Netanyahu get about Obama’s plans for the Middle East?
If there were any doubt about what Biden was up to, consider his white supremacy comment.
Warnock claims he was referring to the deaths of Palestinian civilians who demonstrated in support of Hamas militants and that he is a strong supporter of Israel, crediting it with being the greatest proponent of democracy in the Middle East.
Universally recognized as a prodigious Talmudic and halachic scholar and foremost Torah personality, Rabbi Feinstein was also known for his humility, unfailing grace, and matter-of-fact demeanor.
Rabbi Sacks presented a vision of a Judaism that encompassed broad concern for such matters as globalization, capitalism, environmentalism, and the welfare and happiness of all of mankind.
And what about the Democrats’ hyper-partisan reading of that Trump-Ukrainian president phone call? Or the unprecedented Democrat-only impeachment of President Trump? All embraced and trumpeted by the media.
It was also fitting that the next day, the first passport issued under the new rules was issued to Menachem Zivotofsky.
With the new 6-3 lineup of conservative-leaning justices believed to be open to broadening protection for religious rights, this promises to be a pivotal time in our history.
A week before the November 3 presidential election, the Admorim of Pupa, Bobov, Munkach, Vishnitz, Skver, Rachmanstrivka, and Satmar, and a dayan of the Crown Heights Beis Din joined rosh yeshivos of Lakewood, Philadelphia, and South Fallsburg in praising President Donald Trump for his leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic and his declaration that “houses of […]
Is there anything that runs more counter to BDS than the Abraham Accords?
Additional Endorsements For Nov. 3 Elections
There was much anger at the hearings despite the fact that the debate was an intellectual one over the appropriate approach a justice on the Supreme Court must take.
That the mainstream media last week largely sat on – and sometimes tried to actively squelch – the explosive story of e-mails indicating that Joe Biden used his position as vice president to advance his son’s business interests in Ukraine suggests what’s at stake.
Endorsements For The November 3 Elections
It was unfortunate that the judge was not really interested in Schick’s legal arguments, referring instead to the national judicial trend in similar cases to defer to the state.
Can Catholic hospitals be required to provide abortions or to pay for employee health insurance that includes contraception services or provide gender-altering surgery?
So the mayor confirms up front that he is aiming to make a political point to Trump supporters.
It is vital for voters to know what Biden thinks about packing the Supreme Court and eliminating the filibuster.
Sadly, it seems clear to us that Arizona State was anxious to avoid coming off as not being in sync with the anti-police, institutional racism movement.
Together with her husband, she organized the historic 1968 Passover Seder at Hebron’s Park Hotel, which marked the first Jewish holiday celebrated in Hebron since the expulsion of Jews from the city several decades earlier.
These days conservatives want courts to merely determine what provisions of the Constitution and statutes require – that is, deduce the plain meaning of legislative policy choices, with the president enforcing them.
True, the mayor and his administration have pulled back substantially from the April comments singling out parts of the Jewish community which began to put a Jewish face on the pandemic. They now speak mostly of “hot zones” of enhanced numbers of cases.
His call for an international conference reveals that he has not abandoned his perennial, if unrealistic, efforts to avoid resolving issues directly with Israel.
Although an obvious breakthrough for peace in the region, it was brokered by Trump. And horrors, Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu were even nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize!
Various party functionaries cited as precedent Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s refusal to schedule a confirmation hearing for President Obama’s 2016 choice of Merrick Garland to replace Scalia, who had recently died, because it was a presidential election year.
Two very prominent examples of how his own decision-making has been challenged are Barr’s efforts to dismiss the Michael Flynn prosecution and his reducing the sentence imposed on Roger Stone initially recommended by prosecutors in the case.
The recurring theme one hears from his supporters is that Trump has destroyed the sense of bipartisan support that has long characterized U.S. policy towards Israel – curious contention given the growing Sanders/Ocasio-Cortez anti-Israel cabal.
Rather than coming up with an across-the-board assessment of what it would take to rejuvenate as quickly and as efficiently as possible, the mayor... saw an opportunity to pursue a long frustrated agenda.
And Comey’s “leaks?” What about them? And what about those meetings Obama and Biden attended in which instructions for an investigation of Donald Trump arguably appear to have been issued?
Conceptually, conjuring up the notion that gangs of people could react to the president’s plan with violence suggests that it is a legitimate reaction.
The mayor was asked at one of his daily press briefings why public school students who will be returning to classrooms this fall will be eating their lunch in school cafeterias while restaurants can’t open for indoor dining.
The Palestinians are facing some real opposition from within the Arab League with the UAE, Bahrain, and several other Gulf states openly trying to foil Palestinian efforts.
No way violence could be mentioned in the same breath as the left’s pure call for racial justice. Especially because they knew that most everyone knew that the riots and violence were driven by notorious elements within Black Lives Matter and Antifa.
Just two months ago, according to The Times, the International Atomic Energy Agency had accused Iran of hiding suspected nuclear activities after inspectors were refused access to two unidentified locations.
At bottom, the court accepted the student’s self-styled gender identification as definitive.
We want to know how welcoming Biden is to anti-Israel advocacy within the Democratic Party.
Surveys conducted by the National Review and Fox News show that the Clinesmith plea has been almost completely ignored by the mainstream media. The contrast with Muller probe is stunning.
Israel certainly had much to offer by way of economic power, technological development, and – in the light of the threat posed by an increasingly predatory Iran – military deterrence.
The Trump peace plan is probably too far along to be altered too much by a potential Biden administration – although no one really knows.
The ADL in the past few years has, with few exceptions, mimicked the progressive line. It has criticized President Trump and other Republican leaders to an extent that has triggered charges that it has become an arm of the Democratic Party.
Rabbi Steinsaltz was a prolific and wide-ranging author, writing more than 60 books and hundreds of articles on the Talmud, Jewish mysticism, Jewish philosophy, sociology, and historical biography.
She even admitted that her decision to run for attorney general was largely “about that man in the White House who can’t go a day without threatening our fundamental rights.”
We, therefore, don’t think the advice has anything to do with the challenges Biden faces in making himself understood. Those will continue to be in play.
Coming after the relocation of the American Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and other similar moves by the Trump administration, the prospect of annexation meant that the Palestinians were fast running out of negotiating options.
In both cases, the Chief Justice found that a president did not enjoy total immunity and would have to acquiesce in the requests of Congress and local prosecutors if certain protocols – which he set forth – were met.
Of course, the claim of Black Lives Matter transcendency is hogwash. The Black Lives Matter movement has nasty anti-Semitic aspects to it.
There is just too much going on across this country disrupting the way we have always done business for Americans to not care about Joe Biden’s views about all of it.
Why haven’t the esteemed legislators called for broad public support and quick conclusions of the Durham and Graham investigations?
AI recently sued NSO in Tel Aviv District Court in an effort to have its export license canceled, claiming that NSO’s products are used by several countries in human rights violations.
Enforced uniformity of editorial product is a serious problem for a newspaper. Truth should ideally emerge through the free clash of ideas.
He said the Jewish organizational brief “makes the point that ‘Judaism has many ‘ministers’” that is, “the term ‘minister’ encompasses an extensive breadth of religious functionaries in Judaism.”
The bottom line for Roberts and the Court is also that Congress cannot simply invoke its general power to legislate in order to secure any information it wants...
To be sure, we have a problem with making common cause with someone like Sharpton who still has not seen fit to acknowledge that he betrayed us in 1991, causing much harm to countless individuals, but also exacerbating the split between the Jewish and black communities.
He must be such a diplomat that he can settle differences between individuals so that each will think he won.
He served for many years as the rav’s confidant and has been instrumental in the publication of his works.
Cuomo likened funerals to participatory sports: “Now is not the time to be playing Frisbee with your friends in the park.”
While abortion is at the very center of conservative concerns, the admission issue can hardly be ranked as heated.
Official projections are that there will be an $8.75 billion budget deficit that the mayor will have to make up.
“A state need not subsidize private education. But once a State decides to do so, it cannot disqualify some private schools solely because they are religious.
Arab spokesmen, Palestinian leaders, and EU officials are claiming that a Palestinian state will be rendered impossible if Israel gets what it wants without negotiations.
Of course, it soon became clear that the issue was not as harmless as Gorsuch may have thought.
Although the severity of the lockdown has now become somewhat controversial, in March it certainly seemed to make sense, and most were prepared to accept the notion that quarantine was necessary – as a matter of medical science – to stem the spread of the virus.
There is a chance for us to make a real difference and determine outcomes. But we have to vote.
The outcome was wholly unexpected given the Court’s ostensibly conservative majority.
More details on these additional primary election endorsements – as well as other endorsements – will follow next week.
Despite the devastating economic emergency occasioned by the coronavirus lockdown, he did not announce any cost-cutting measures. He did announce, though – out of the blue, it appears – a $1.2 billion AIDS/HIV prevention program!
A compelling orator, he was a leading pulpit rabbi for many years who was widely acclaimed for the sophistication, erudition and eloquence of his sermons and speeches.
Moreover, they took every opportunity to remind everyone of America’s racial history and what they said was the overarching need to speak out against it.
While we were able to put together a body of useful evidence, we recognized that we were far from having the complete picture.
Certainly now and going forward, any approach that does not reflect the even greater political, economic, military and technological contrast between the two sides would be absurd and futile.
Was President Obama telling those present not to end the existing probe of President-elect Donald Trump?
Nursing homes must now test their staff twice weekly for the virus. If this is important, why was it introduced so late in the game?
Despite the fact that a president has the right to fire any federal employee, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced a congressional oversight probe into the firings...
What do you know? The research and development arm of Israel’s army helps the army fight. You don’t say!
Netanyahu’s opponents said he was disqualified from leading this unity government because of his criminal indictment and upcoming trial.
Rather than relying on the NYPD to be alert to unacceptably large assemblages they may encounter, the mayor ordered a proactive investigative blitz in primarily Jewish areas to root out violators.
So while evidence that the Pope actually was aware of much of what Nazis were reportedly doing is not in doubt, some will contend that he didn’t believe most of it and was reasonable in that disbelief.
He was perhaps most proud of his 40-year stewardship of the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School and rebuilding that testament to authentic old-world Torah Yiddishkeit to its current preeminence.
What piques our concern is the incentive of government officials to deflect blame.
It seems, though, that the Progressives in charge in New York City are determined to go their congressional colleagues one better.
As a district manager and city council member he was an unabashed advocate for legitimate needs facing all of his constituents.
Significant in this context is the ongoing dispute between Netanyahu and Gantz over that part of Trump’s so-called Deal of the Century, which envisages the possible Israeli annexation of parts of the West Bank with large Jewish populations.
As of this writing Deutsch is seeking an expansion of the number of kosher food sites.
A penetrating intellect with a broad range of interests, he had an uncommon gift for straightforward explication and was a persuasive voice for Torah Jewry on any number of its pressing issues.
In a bill that was designed specifically to save the economy and help people survive this pandemic, the Democrats wanted to include provisions on employee diversity, increased union representation, environmentalism, and more.
As of Monday, there were a reported 350,000 coronavirus cases in the United States, which has a population of 325 million. There have been 10,000 deaths so far.
It didn’t seem to matter to anyone that, on top of everything else, China withheld vital information about the spread of the virus across China and purposefully misled the Trump administration and other governments, making it effectively responsible for thousands of deaths.
Meanwhile, a Johns Hopkins University study in late 2019 ranked the United States the best-prepared country in the world to handle a pandemic.
We take the refusal of the media to raise the intern’s case with Biden as confirmation that politics drove the Kavanaugh dispute.


