Press Release: NJAC Files Amicus Brief in U.S. Supreme Court on Behalf of Leading Jewish Organizations Defending the Right of Orthodox Jews to Pray at Home

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ATLANTA, GA — The National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC) filed an amicus curiae brief on Friday in the Supreme Court of the United States in Grand v. City of University Heights, Ohio, urging the Court to hear the case of Daniel Grand, an Orthodox Jewish man who was ordered by his city to stop hosting prayer services in his own home. 

NJAC drafted and filed the brief on behalf of itself and two of the nation’s preeminent Jewish communal organizations, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (Orthodox Union) and the National Council of Young Israel, who joined as amici curiae. Daniel Grand is an Orthodox Jew living in University Heights, Ohio. In January 2021, he invited a small group of neighbors to his home for Sabbath prayer services, a minyan, the quorum of ten men that Jewish law requires for communal worship. Because Orthodox Jewish law forbids driving on the Sabbath, Grand could not travel to a synagogue. The home minyan was his only way to fulfill this religious obligation...

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25-965 Amicus Brief of The National Jewish Advocacy Center et al..pdf

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