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Balancing Acts of Faith and Pork

Micah D. Halpern July 22, 2004

The question: How Jewish vs. how democratic should the Jewish State of Israel actually be?

That was really the question before Israel\’s Supreme Court.

More than a legal question, it led to serious and heated debate. The answer would be a defining factor in the very nature of the state itself. It came to the fore as the court was asked to decide if three cities, Jerusalem included, could ban the selling of pork.

The ruling: That cities cannot outright forbid the sale of pork and should respect communities that are predominantly religious but may sell pork in other areas of the city.

Will Sharon Weather Israel ‘Watergate’?

Leslie Susser January 22, 2004

As with President Richard Nixon in the Watergate affair, tapes and an attempted cover-up could be the undoing of Israel\’s scandal-haunted leader.

Here Come the Judges

Mike Levy August 23, 2001

Gov. Gray Davis announced four possible nominees for California\’s Supreme Court, to fill the vacancy left by the late Justice Stanley Mosk in June.

The Mosk Seat

Marlene Adler Marks June 28, 2001

Does Stanley Mosk\’s California Supreme Court seat naturally go to a Jew? In the political jockeying left by the death at 88 of California\’s longest-serving justice, the debate begins again: Is there a special \”Jewish seat\” that deserves to be enshrined on the high court?

In filling the seat Mosk occupied for 37 years, here are some names being mentioned: former L.A. City Attorney Burt Pines and former Rep. Lynn Schenk, both close aides to Gov. Gray Davis; Arthur Gilbert, presiding justice of the Court of Appeal in Ventura (and a jazz pianist); Appellate Justice Norman Epstein and U.S. District Judge Nora Manella. Personally I\’m for Pines (though I hear he eschews it). The Manella name has a certain poetic impact; her father\’s firm, Irell & Manella, was among the early \”Jewish firms\” in Los Angeles, responding to discrimination against Jews among old-line law offices.

Jewish Law Cited in Death Penalty Case

Michael Shapiro January 6, 2000

A man who will argue before the U.S. Supreme Court next year that his planned execution in Florida\’s electric chair constitutes \”cruel and unusual punishment\” can point to a 2,000-year-old Jewish law when he pleads his case.

Religion and the State

Ruth Stroud October 23, 1997

What rights would a yarmulke-wearing child have in a public school that decides to prohibit hats on campus? What about a group of Jewish inmates who want to light Chanukah candles when a regulation clearly bans fire of any kind inside a prison? Or a synagogue or church that wishes to build or expand in a restricted area?

Back of the Bus

Jewish Journal July 31, 1997

True story. Last week at the Westside Pavilion, just\noutside Nordstrom, six women, dressed in the garb of\nIslam, were standing by the mall\’s ATM. Four wore\ncolorful scarves, exposing the face and a bit of hair; two\nwere completely in black, with only small slits, 1 inch by\n4 inches, revealing huge, dark eyes. From a distance, the\nhuman form disguised, they looked like a gathering of\nwrens.

Smooth Sailing?

Eric Silver June 19, 1997

Binyamin Netanyahu this week put the Bar-On affair behind him. The Supreme Court endorsed as \”not exceptionally unreasonable\” the law officers\’ reluctance to indict the prime minister and Justice Minister Tzachi Hanegbi for the abortive appointment of an underqualified party hack as attorney-general.

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