A push for religious symbols in the public square is “bad for having a culture in which lots of different religious traditions including Judaism are allowed to flourish.” One week after Louisiana Gov.
A granite monument of the Ten Commandments on Texas State Capitol grounds in Austin, Texas. (Photo via Library of Congress. Design by Jackie Hajdenberg via JTA>org.) Jackie Hajdenberg Three Jewish ...
Like many Jewish Louisianans, I followed with interest the so-called “Ten Commandments” bill which Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed into law this week. It requires public schools, including ...
“I can’t wait to be sued,” Louisiana’s governor, Jeff Landry, said last week just before signing a law requiring all public schools in the state to “display the Ten Commandments in each classroom” no ...
Earlier this summer, Republican Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed into law a requirement that all public classrooms display the Ten Commandments. Broadly similar laws are moving through ...
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Re: "A Poster Won't Help - Students need moral instruction, not unconstitutional Ten Commandments signs," Tuesday editorial. Thank you for your beautifully expressed editorial on the importance of ...
Re: letter "Religion coming to Ohio's classrooms?", Feb. 20: I wish I were a betting man. I would have raked in some dough by wagering that letter writer Steve McLoughlin would claim that the ...
A Texas statute mandating the posting of the Ten Commandments in every classroom in the state had been blocked by a federal district court and by a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals. But those ...
in which the Ten Commandments were perfected, of every festival the best of all. “qimu veqiblu,” by all Jews established and accepted. Then he took the record of the covenant and read it aloud to the ...
For artists who take on the challenge of depicting scenes from the Torah – particularly Moses and the giving of the Ten ...
Three Jewish families are among a group of nine Louisiana families with children in public schools who have filed a suit in federal court challenging a new state law that requires the Ten Commandments ...