Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts
Thursday, October 10, 2024

Israel's Supreme Court Orders Tel Aviv to Permit Outdoor Sex-Separated Yom Kippur Services

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Times of Israel reports that yesterday a unanimous 3-judge panel of Israel's Supreme Court ordered the municipality of Tel Aviv to perm...
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Jewish Students Sue Haverford College Alleging Title VI Violations

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Suit was filed last week in a Pennsylvania federal district court by Jewish students as Haverford College alleging that the college has viol...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Court Grants Injunction to Jewish Students at UCLA Impeded by Gaza Protests

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In Frankel v. Regents of the University of California ,  (CD CA, Aug. 13, 2024), a California federal district court issued a preliminary in...
Saturday, August 03, 2024

Court Dismisses Title VI Suit Claiming Hostile Environment Affecting Jewish Students At MIT

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In StandWithUs Center for Legal Justice v. Massachusetts Institute of Technology ,  (D MA, July 30, 2024), a Massachusetts federal district ...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Israel's Supreme Court Orders Drafting of Haredi Men

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Yesterday, Israel's Supreme Court in a controversial ruling ordered the government to end draft deferments that have been given to ultra...
Monday, April 22, 2024

President Biden Issues Passover Statement

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Passover begins this evening. Yesterday President Biden issued a Statement on Passover ( full text ) which says in part: Tomorrow night, Jew...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024

House Brands Palestinian Slogan as Antisemitic

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Yesterday the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 377-44  adopted House Resolution 883 ( full text ) stating that the slogan, "f...
Thursday, February 08, 2024

British Employment Tribunal Holds That Anti-Zionist Views Are a Protected Philosophical Belief

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In Miller v. University of Bristol , (Bristol Empl. Trib., Feb. 5, 2024), a British Employment Tribunal held that anti-Zionist views held by...
Tuesday, January 09, 2024

Art Institute School Sued for Antisemitic Discrimination and Hostility

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Three weeks ago, suit was filed in an Illinois federal district court against the School of the Art Institute of Chicago by a Jewish Israeli...
Friday, December 29, 2023

Israel's Top Court OK's Adoption by Same-Sex Couples

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 As reported by Times of Israel , a 3-judge panel of Israel's Supreme Court sitting as the High Court of Justice yesterday ruled that un...
Thursday, September 28, 2023

Israel's High Court Orders Government To Explain Its Inaction Against Top Rabbi's Hateful Remarks

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  Times of Israel and Jerusalem Post  report that on Tuesday Israel's Supreme Court, sitting as the High Court of Justice, issued a tem...
Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Former Israeli Prime Minister Wins Defamation Action

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Times of Israel reports that a Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court yesterday ruled in favor of former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in...
Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Contractor Lacks Standing to Sue Texas AG In Challenge To Anti-BDS Law

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In A&R Engineering and Testing, Inc. v. Scott ,  (5th Cir., July 10, 2023), the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals held that a company an...
Wednesday, March 08, 2023

Israel's Supreme Court Says Interior Ministry Must Register Marriages Performed on Zoom Through Utah

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The Times of Israel and Jerusalem Post  report on yesterday's decision by Israel's Supreme Court in    Ministry of the Interior v. ...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Cert. Denied in Challenge to Arkansas' Ban on Companies Boycotting Israel

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The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday denied review in Arkansas Times LP v. Waldrip,  (Docket No. 22-379, certiorari  denied 2/21/2023). ( Order ...
Wednesday, February 08, 2023

In Israel, Jerusalem Municipality Places Tax Lien on Vatican-Owned Guest House

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Times of Israel reports that the Jerusalem Municipality has placed a lien on the bank accounts of the Vatican-owned Notre Dame of Jerusalem...
Wednesday, November 02, 2022

Religious Parties Winning 33 Seats In Israel's Knesset Election

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Haaretz reports that as of 4:07 PM Nov. 2 (Israeli time), with 85.9% of the vote in yesterday's election counted, three Jewish religiou...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Certiorari Filed in Challenge to Arkansas Anti-BDS Law

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 A petition for certiorari ( full text ) has been filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in Arkansas Times, LP v. Waldrip,  (Sup. Ct., filed 10/2...
Monday, July 11, 2022

Israeli Trial Court Rules That Government Must Recognize Online Civil Marriage Ceremony

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  Times of Israel reports: A ruling by the Lod District Court has upended the religious status quo in Israel and could augur a marriage rev...
Friday, June 24, 2022

8th Circuit Upholds Arkansas Israel Boycott Certification Requirement

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The U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals sitting en banc,  in a 9-1 opinion, upheld Arkansas' law requiring public contracts to include a c...