Showing posts with label New York City. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New York City. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

NYC Mayor Adams Signs Executive Order on Antisemitism

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On June 8, New York City Mayor Eric Adams signed Executive Order No. 52, Defining Antisemitism  ( full text ), which instructs New York City...
Friday, May 16, 2025

NYC Mayor Creates Office to Combat Antisemitism

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Earlier this week, New York City Mayor Eric Adams issued Executive Order 51  , (May 13, 2025), creating a Mayor's Office to Combat Antis...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Brooklyn Yeshivahs File Title VI Complaint with U.S. Department of Education

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Four Orthodox Jewish yeshivah elementary schools in Brooklyn, New York, have filed a complaint ( full text ) with the U.S. Department of Edu...
Monday, November 18, 2024

2nd Circuit Remands Two Plaintiffs' Claims for Improper Denial of Religious Exemptions from Vaccine Mandate

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New Yorkers for Religious Liberty v. City of New York , (2d Cir., Nov. 13, 2024), is a decision on appeals of two cases challenging denials ...
Thursday, July 04, 2024

NY Sanitation Worker Can Move Ahead on Failure To Accommodate Anti-Vax Beliefs

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Decisions on suits by individuals who were denied religious exemptions from now-rescinded Covid vaccine mandates are still being issued by t...
Thursday, January 11, 2024

9 Arrested In New York During Conflict Between Chabad Factions Over Secret Tunnel

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In Brooklyn on Monday, nine people were arrested on charges of criminal mischief and reckless endangerment and three others were issued summ...
Thursday, August 31, 2023

Muslim Call to Prayer Can Be Amplified In New York City

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Yesterday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced  a new initiative to permit mosques to broadcast the call to public prayer on Fridays an...
Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Denial of Teacher's Religious Exemption from Covid Vaccine Mandate Is Upheld

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In In re Matyas v. Board of Education of the City School District of the City of New York ,  (NY County Sup. Ct., July 11, 2023), a New York...
Monday, June 26, 2023

3 Courts Rule on Claims for Religious Exemptions from Covid Vaccine Mandates

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Last week, federal district courts in three states handed down decisions in cases in which a former employee was suing his or her employer f...
Monday, February 20, 2023

Nurse Denied Religious Exemption From Vaccine Mandate Loses Title VII and Free Exercise Challenges

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In Riley v. New York City Health and Hospitals Corp. , (SD NY, Feb. 17, 2023), a New York federal district court dismissed without prejudice...
Friday, February 10, 2023

Student Loses Free Exercise Challenge To University's COVID Vaccine Mandate

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In Collins v. City University of New York ,  (SD NY, Feb. 8, 2023), a New York federal district court rejected a student's claims that h...
Thursday, February 09, 2023

2nd Circuit Hears Arguments on Religious Objections to NYC Employee Vaccine Mandate

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The U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments yesterday in  New Yorkers For Religious Liberty, Inc. v. The City of New York. ( ...
Thursday, January 05, 2023

Court Says Idiosyncratic Personal Religious Beliefs May Not Support Religious Accommodation

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In In re Moscatelli v. New York City Police Department ,  (NY Cnty. Sup. Ct., Dec. 22, 2022), a New York trial court annulled an administrat...
Friday, November 04, 2022

Emergency Injunction Against NYC City-Worker Vaccine Mandates Sought from Supreme Court

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An Emergency Application for an Injunction Pending Appellate Review ( full text ) was filed with the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday in New Yor...
Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Brooklyn Yeshiva Will Pay Additional $5 Million In Penalties for Lunch Program Fraud

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The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York announced on Monday that Central United Talmudic Academy, a yeshiva in ...
Monday, October 24, 2022

Today Is Diwali; NYC Schools To Recognize It

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Today is Diwali , the Hindu Festival of Lights which is also celebrated by some Jains, Sikhs and Buddhists. As reported by CNN , last Thursd...
Tuesday, August 30, 2022

NYC Vaccine Mandate Upheld

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In Kane v. DeBlasio , (SD NY, Aug. 26, 2022), a New York federal district court rejected a challenge by New York City teachers, administrato...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Subsidized Housing Family Size Limit Did Not Violate Rights Of Orthodox Jewish Family

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In Katz v. New York City Housing Preservation & Development ,  (SD NY, Aug. 8, 2022), a New York federal district court rejected Free Ex...
Thursday, February 17, 2022

NYC Teachers, Seeking Religious Exemptions, Resubmit Injunction Request To Justice Gorsuch

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As previously reported , last week in  Keil v. City of New York, Justice Sotomayor Acting on an Emergency Application to the U.S. Supreme Co...
Saturday, February 12, 2022

Supreme Court Refuses To Enjoin NYC Vaccine Mandate For Teachers

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Acting on an Emergency Application  to the U.S. Supreme Court filed by a group of New York City teachers, Justice Sotomayor, in Keil v. City...