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The Constitutional Case for Jewish Charter Schools

JL;DR SUMMARY The article explores the potential of Jewish charter schools (JCSs) as a solution to multiple challenges facing the American Jewish community, such as the day school tuition crisis and increasing Jewish discomfort in public schools due to DEI programs and anti-Israel sentiment. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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First AmendmentAmerican Jewish CommunityJewish Day SchoolsAnti Israel SentimentSeparation Of Church And StateJohn AdamsConstitutional InterpretationLeonard FeinJewish Charter SchoolsJefferson

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Connecticut, United States
"Thomas Jefferson (who was in France when the First Amendment was written, debated, and ratified) wrote a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in Connecticut, interpreting those words to mean that the First Amendment had built a wall of separation between church and state."
Massachusetts, United States
"Adamss view, often called the civic republican position, is enshrined in the Massachusetts Constitution:"
Ewing, New Jersey, United States
"The 1947 case Everson vs. Board of Education of the Township of Ewing, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black dropped the almost and declared for the first time that the establishment clause required what is now called strict separationism: The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state."

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