Podcast: Michael Avi Helfand on Jewish Life and Law at the Supreme Court

There aren’t enough public schools in Maine. By some estimates, about half of Maine’s school districts don’t have the facilities or faculty to educate the students who live in them. The state’s solution is to give families who live in such districts money to send their children to others school—either a different public school further away, or a private school. But Maine doesn’t make that funding available to families who choose to send their children to religious schools. In just a few weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of Carson v. Makin, a case that could affect the way that Maine, and the rest of the United States, deals with the funding of religious schools.