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October 28, 2026

The Home Minyan Goes to Court

The Supreme Court will hear a landmark case about Jewish prayer.

Since January 2021, an Orthodox Jew in Ohio named Daniel Grand has faced extraordinary difficulties surrounding his attempt to hold a Shabbat minyan in his home. The details of the measures that the city and his community took to prevent ten Jewish men for gathering to pray in a private home are shocking—a recent Tikvah Podcast episode interviewed one of Grand’s lawyers—and the case will soon find itself argued before the United States Supreme Court. Edward Blum and Cary Kozberg summarize the events and lay out the implications.

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