Religion and politics go hand in hand in American life. The relationship between the government and religion were of such importance and concern that our founders thought it necessary to write the Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses into the First
This post is the first in a series that will take a closer look at upcoming Supreme Court cases for the 2012-2013 term. As college freshmen begin moving into dorms and exploring campuses, the stress and anxiety of the admissions process fades quietly away. But
Immigrant children in the United States
In 1975, Texas revised education statutes in a manner that allowed the state to withhold funds for the education of children who did not legally enter the United States and permitted local school districts to charge
School vouchers can be a tricky issue: the Supreme Court ruled that indirect voucher programs that put money in the hands of parents are constitutional, but that direct government funding of private, and often religious schools, is not acceptable. So if
In October of last year, Rabbi Saperstein, the Director of the RAC and an expert on church-state law, and Oliver Thomas, a noted First Amendment scholar and lawyer, partnered to lay out five rules candidates and the public should follow concerning faith in the
The Union for Reform Judaism leads the largest and most diverse Jewish movement in North America.