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Tag: Church State Separation

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The Jewish leader taking on Christian nationalism

Asaf Elia-Shalev in JTA · 17 Dec

Rachel Laser, the Jewish president of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, is passionately leading the fight against Christian nationalism, a movement she perceives as a significant threat to religious pluralism in the United States.

0 Politics Education

Federal judge temporarily blocks Louisiana’s law requiring classrooms to display Ten Commandments

Jacob Gurvis in Forward · 12 Nov

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Louisiana law mandating the display of the Ten Commandments in all public school classrooms, ruling it unconstitutional under the First Amendment.

0 Education Ethics

School prayer timeline: The evolution of prayer in schools, from Founding Fathers to President Trump's commitment to bringing it back

Benyamin Cohen in Forward · 12 Nov

Benyamin Cohen's article traces the history and legal battles over prayer in U.S. public schools, beginning from the creation of the First Amendment in 1791, which set the groundwork for church-state separation.

0 Education Politics

The battle over Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law is over the future of church-state separation

Michael A. Helfand in JTA · 26 Jun

Louisiana's governor, Jeff Landry, recently signed a law mandating the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms by 2025, prompting a lawsuit from the ACLU, including Jewish families, citing a violation of the First Amendment's separation of church and state.