The most popular feature of my waiting room is not the tea-and-coffee station but something that, to my surprise, is downright controversial.
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Read More »October 19, 2015 Comments Off on The writing on the wall
The most popular feature of my waiting room is not the tea-and-coffee station but something that, to my surprise, is downright controversial.
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Read More »April 30, 2015 Comments Off on Synagogue challenges ‘rain tax’ on religious grounds
A Baltimore synagogue is appealing the city appeals board decision that it must pay a stormwater management fee. And while Shaarei Tfiloh Congregation echoes arguments by critics that the fee is in fact a property tax by another name, it is also making a constitutional argument -- that the fee violates the synagogue's religious rights.
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Read More »February 17, 2015 Comments Off on Rabbi accused of running divorce kidnap team heads to trial
Prosecutors allege Epstein's team would use brutal methods, including martial arts beatings, handcuffs and electric cattle prods, to torture the man into granting the divorce.
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Read More »February 9, 2015 Comments Off on What we have here is a failure of leadership
What is the proper course for young leaders when the leadership of their community fails?
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Read More »January 20, 2015 Comments Off on Supreme Court rules for bearded Muslim inmate
The justices said that inmate Gregory Holt could maintain a half-inch beard for religious reasons because Arkansas prison officials could not substantiate claims that the beard posed a security risk.
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Read More »December 18, 2014 Comments Off on 2 women add their names to lawsuit involving rabbi
Two women have joined a lawsuit saying they were sexually exploited by a rabbi accused of secretly videotaping women in a Jewish ritual bath.
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Read More »December 18, 2014 Comments Off on Md., 6 other states have bans on atheists holding office
Some freedom-from-religion advocates are pressing Maryland and six other states to remove provisions from their state constitutions prohibiting people who don't believe in God from holding public office.
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Read More »December 12, 2014 Comments Off on Carroll County to continue disputed prayer policy
The Carroll County Commissioners have voted to continue a disputed policy allowing members to open their meetings with sectarian prayers.
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Read More »November 19, 2014 Comments Off on The case might be over, but the questions remain
Sometimes, the pastor wonders if he should have raised Hell.
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Read More »November 14, 2014 Comments Off on D.C. Circuit rejects challenge to contraceptive-mandate option
A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a path devised by the Obama administration that allows religious nonprofit groups to avoid paying for contraception under the president’s health care law.
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