152. Should Government Fund Religious Schools?
Talking Tachlis Podcast
English - December 16, 2021 19:04 - 40 minutes - 28 MB - ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsReligion & Spirituality jewish israel judaism antisemitism Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in Carson vs Makin, in which parents of Maine students alleged that their First Amendment rights were infringed upon by not allowing their children to attend religious schools using the state funding, when other private schools were allowed. Rivky and Uri discuss the court case, and ask, as religious Jews, what do we think about the separation of church and state, school vouchers in general, and government funding of religion?
Links:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/opinion/public-schools-religion.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/08/us/politics/supreme-court-religious-schools-maine.html
https://advocacy.ou.org/content/uploads/WSJ-The-Supreme-Court-Takes-Up-Religious-LibertyAgain.pdf?
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/492/573
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=mihT_GNeRN8