Tikvah
Editors’ Pick

June 7, 2016

The New York City Human-Rights Commission vs. Orthodox Jews

Attacking public accommodation of religion.

Last week, the New York Times published an editorial complaining about a public swimming pool in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg that has designated women-only hours every week, to accommodate the mores of the area’s large ḥasidic population. The policy also provoked the ire of the New York City Human-Rights Commission. Mark Hemingway writes:

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