Three Jewish Organizations Refuse to File Brief with Extremist Muslim Group in Employment Discrimination Case.
WASHINGTON, July 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress and the Anti-Defamation League today announced their withdrawal from an amicus brief being prepared for filing with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of a Muslim woman, Zeinab Ali. Ms. Ali is asking the...

Bush pressures senate to take action on `faith-based initiative'. (People & Events).
Seeking to spark action on his controversial "faith-based initiative," President George W. Bush in November wrote to Senate leaders, urging them to move forward on several provisions of the measure this year. In his Nov. 7 letter to Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) and Minority Leader Trent...

Forbidden Grounds: The Case Against Employment Discrimination Laws.
Forbidden Grounds: The Case Against Employment Discrimination Laws, by Richard Epstein (Harvard, 521 pp., $39.95) CYNICAL conservatives and moderates who thought they could ignore or tame the affirmative-action juggernaut that quietly rolled through the Reagan-Bush years must now confront the machine's aggressive new drivers in Bill Clinton's...

Justice Department OKs religious bias in 'faith-based' programs.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has advised religious groups that they may accept tax dollars and still discriminate on the basis of religion when hiring staff. In October, the Justice Department posted a notice on its Web site asserting that a 14-year-old law called the Religious...

God or mammon: when religious groups get caught between their principles and their subsidies.
THE SALVATION ARMY, with its bells and kettles, is ubiquitous in the Christmas season. In our contentious times, it is also the center of a controversy over religion, public funding for charities, and discrimination. In May the New Fork Post reported that the Salvation Army, which has...

Jean Louis David Hair Salons Sued for Discrimination Against Jewish Barber.
NEW YORK, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- A Soviet emigre who came to the United States to escape religious persecution filed suit today in New York Supreme Court against the world's largest hairstyling organization for firing him from their New York City salon when he refused their demand...

How you pose the question has everything to do with the answer you're likely to get.
How you pose the question has everything to do with the answer you're likely to get. For instance: Should institutions that receive government funds be permitted to discriminate in hiring? Or: Do religious organizations have a constitutional right to hire people who will advance their mission? Joseph Knippenberg greatly...

The 1963 March on Washington.
ON AUGUST 28, 1963, more than 250,000 demonstrators descended upon the nation's capital to participate in the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom". Not only was it the largest demonstration for human rights in United States history, but it also occasioned a rare display of unity among the...

Proposed federal health regs could jeopardize patient care, says AU.
Proposed federal regulations that purport to protect the religious liberty of doctors and other medical workers could jeopardize the health care rights of patients, according to Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Americans United on Sept. 24 submitted public comments to the U.S. Department of...