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- Palestinian leaders are calling on the international community to sanction Israel after an Israeli Military operation in Jenin resulted in Palestinian deaths
- Activists and the political opposition say the ruling coalition’s proposals, which aim at curbing the power of Israel’s judiciary, could undermine the country’s existing system of checks and balances
- Israel’s Supreme Court president has transformed the court into a super-legislator, empowered to dictate the terms of laws to the people’s elected representatives, based on the values of the justices
- Israel’s Attorney General “has the exclusive right to decide if the prime minister has violated the conflict of interest arrangement and must therefore be declared unfit to serve”
- Upper West Side Rabbi Kalmanofsky therefore decreed that the standard prayer for the State of Israel, a staple of synagogue Shabbat services, no longer be recited
- Book of Names, with the names of 4.8 million Holocaust victims, to be inaugurated at UN, underscoring individual identities of the victims
- Motorola among other companies targeted by ESG movement for supporting Israel
- Gerald Steinberg: “In 30 years as head of Human Rights Watch, Ken Roth has consistently singled out Israel uniquely for demonization and delegitimization, using numerous false and distorted claims”
Tag Archives: Supreme Court
Activists and the political opposition say the ruling coalition’s proposals, which aim at curbing the power of Israel’s judiciary, could undermine the country’s existing system of checks and balances
WALL STREET JOURNAL Israel’s Supreme Court Strikes Down Appointment of Key Netanyahu Ally Dov Lieber January 18, 2023 Israel’s Supreme Court struck down the appointment of a minister who is a critical ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, dealing an … Continue reading
Yeshiva University “would “likely win” if the case were to come again before the Supreme Court”
NEW YORK POST Supreme Court sides with LGBTQ group at Yeshiva University Cayla Bamberger September 14, 2022 The Supreme Court refused to block a state court order that requires New York’s Yeshiva University to officially recognize an LGBTQ student group. Chief … Continue reading
The Supreme Court rules that Maine cannot exclude religious schools from a program that gives private school funding to parents in areas without public schools
JEWISH INSIDER Supreme Court strikes down restrictions on public funding of religious schools Marc Rod June 22, 2022 The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday against restrictions excluding religious schools from programs that allow public funding of private schools, the latest … Continue reading
A decision about restricting religious services offers a window into the two tribes competing for dominance in the country today
TABLET MAG The Supreme Court Emerges as a Microcosm of America by Liel Leibovitz November 25, 2020 Supreme Court decisions rarely make for page turners, but the one handed down last night, siding with Jewish and Catholic groups opposing the … Continue reading
“Ginsburg embodied a particular ambivalence in Jewish life that is found in no other faith community”
JNS RBG: An American Jewish justice warrior by Melanie Phillips September 24, 2020 The obituary in Britain’s Guardian newspaper of the iconic liberal US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died last weekend, provoked outrage among a number of … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court
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ADL attack on Kavanaugh nomination “latest instance of how Jonathan Greenblatt has turned the venerable anti-Semitism watchdog into a partisan outfit”
JNS Whatever happened to the ADL? by Jonathan Tobin July 13, 2018 When Jonathan Greenblatt replaced Abe Foxman as national director of the Anti-Defamation League in 2015, the shift from a career Jewish professional to a veteran Democratic Party operative … Continue reading
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Tagged ADL, Anti-Defamation League, Brett Kavanaugh, Jonathan Greenblatt, Supreme Court
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“The death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia doesn’t merely mark a tragedy for Constitutional philosophy – it may mark the death of American Constitutionalism as a whole”
BREITBART Antonin Scalia’s Death Could Mark End of Constitution by Ben Shapiro February 14, 2016 Scalia’s philosophy of jurisprudence is well-known and shaped two generations of conservative thinkers: the Constitution ought to be interpreted according to its original meaning. This … Continue reading
From Doubles Tennis to Internet Porn: My Year as a Supreme Court Clerk
Ted Cruz, while controversial, is considered by many to possess a brilliant legal mind. A graduate of Princeton University cum laude, Cruz also graduated Harvard Law School magna cum laude, was editor of Harvard Law Review. Referring to Cruz — the student … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Rehnquist, Connor, Sandra Day O, Supreme Court, Ted Cruz, US Supreme Court, William Rehnquist
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12 Must-Read Quotes From Scalia’s Blistering Same-Sex Marriage Dissent
THE BLAZE by Chris Field June 26, 2015 Anyone who thought Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s dissent in Thursday’s Obamacare — which Scalia now calls “SCOTUScare” — ruling was intense should read his dissent in Friday’s 5-4 ruling legalizing same-sex … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Kennedy, Justice Antonin Scalia, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
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