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Jun 29, 2024, 1:33 AM

Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law tests the future of church-state separation

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The US Supreme Court upholds the principle that government cannot enact laws that are religiously coercive, but will it consider a poster coercive?

Jun 23, 2022, 1:17 PM

US Supreme Court: Government funding will pay for religious schools

The inscription, 'Equal Justice Under Law,' as seen on the frieze of the United States Supreme Court building. (MattWade, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

The highest court in the land finally recognized that separation of church and state can be discriminatory, its ruling protects the religious as equal citizens

Dec 3, 2020, 3:15 PM

What the Supreme Court ruling does NOT mean for synagogues

Forget about jamming the pews with worshippers in COVID hotspots: The SCOTUS decision said, among other things, that a building's size matters

Oct 17, 2020, 4:09 PM

Dear New York, here’s how not to seem anti-Semitic during COVID

After coming across as unfairly singling out Jewish neighborhoods, the state must do better at explaining the numbers and the science

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Michael A. Helfand is an associate professor at Pepperdine University School of Law and associate director of Pepperdine University's the Diane and Guilford Glazer Institute for Jewish Studies. A frequent author and lecturer, his work focuses on religious law and religious liberty.