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August 25, 2023

In California, a Court Rules against Jewish Families and for Religious Discrimination

Ignoring the Supreme Court.

In accordance with state law, the California government sometimes pays private schools to educate children with disabilities whose particular needs cannot be readily met by the public schools—so long as those private institutions have no religious affiliation. Such a qualification, argue Maury Litwack and Michael A. Helfand, violates the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence of the last six years. So too claim two Jewish schools and three Jewish families who challenged the law’s constitutionality in a federal district court, which recently ruled in favor of the schools. Litwack and Helfand criticize the decision:

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