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8 Supreme Court Decision Allowing Catholic Agency to
Discriminate Splits Jews
A SUPREME COURT DECISION on religious freedoms,
stemming from a situation in Philadelphia, earned praise from
Orthodox Jewish groups, while more liberal groups were relieved
that its scope was narrow, JTA reported.

Th e court issued a unanimous decision on June 17 overturning
Philadelphia’s policy of refusing to work with Catholic Social Services,
an agency that won’t place foster children with same-sex parents. Jewish
groups fi led friend-of-the-court briefs on both sides of the case.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that because screening
criteria vary among Philadelphia’s fostering agencies — and
the city allowed policy exemptions — singling out the Catholic
agency for specifi c criteria was discriminatory.

Orthodox groups, driven by concerns about religious liberty,
sided with CSS. Many cheered the ruling.

Meantime, liberal and civil rights Jewish groups were
disappointed, but relieved, that the court’s decision was narrow
and unlikely to impinge on other church-state separations.

Tom Nides Named Ambassador to Israel
President Joe Biden nominated banker Tom Nides to be his
ambassador to Israel, JTA reported.

Nides was the deputy secretary of state for management and
resources from 2011 to 2013 in the Obama administration. He
had good relations with Israeli diplomats, although he was less
involved in substantive diplomacy.

Nides, who is Jewish and a Minnesota native, ran former U.S.

Sen. Joe Lieberman’s vice presidential campaign in 2000.

Michael Oren, the former Israeli ambassador to Washington,
D.C., in his book “Ally” described Nides as “irreverent,
hard-working, highly intelligent, and warm.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene Tours Holocaust Museum, Apologizes
Controversial U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia toured
the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 14 and apologized for
comparing coronavirus protections to the Holocaust, JTA reported.

“I have made a mistake and it’s really bothered me for a couple
of weeks now, and so I defi nitely want to own it. Th e horrors of the
Holocaust are something that some people don’t even believe happened,
and some people deny, but there is no comparison to the Holocaust,”
Greene said outside the Capitol aft er completing a private tour.

In May, Greene’s comparison of a supermarket adding a logo to the
badges of vaccinated workers to the yellow stars that Jews were forced to
wear in Nazi-occupied Europe drew numerous complaints.

Th ere will be no print edition of the Jewish Exponent
the weeks of July 1 and July 29.

Th ese weeks, please visit us online at jewishexponent.com,
where the paper will be available in digital form.

Ukraine Annoys Putin by Honoring Sects with Jewish Roots
Two tiny sects with Jewish roots are front and center in a diplo-
matic fi ght between Russia and Ukraine, JTA reported.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is Jewish, unveiled
a bill in May that he said was designed to help preserve the heritage of
Kairites and Krymchaks, plus the Tatars, a Muslim people.

A few hundred Karaites remain in Ukraine and are remnants of
a sect that broke off from mainstream Judaism in eighth-century
Iraq. Th e Krymchaks, who are nearly extinct, are related to the
Karaites but likely more heavily descended from Georgian Jews.

None of this sits well with Russian President Vladimir Putin,
who said the bill’s perceived implication that ethnic Russians —
who comprise about a third of Ukraine’s population — and other
groups are somehow not indigenous to it. ●
— Compiled by Andy Gotlieb
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ISRAELBRIEFS IDF Ends Intelligence Gathering Nightime Home Raids
of Palestinian Homes
ISRAEL’S ARMY WILL END its longstanding practice of
middle-of-the-night raids on Palestinian homes to gather
intelligence, JTA reported.

Th e policy has been criticized by human rights groups that contend
the raids infl ict psychological damage. In 2020, three Israeli groups
published a report that said there were about 250 raids a month.

Th e practice has been in place for more than 50 years during
Israel’s West Bank administration. Israel will continue to raid
homes to make arrests and search for weapons.

Th e decision comes as Israel’s new government, led by pro-
settlement Prime Minister Naft ali Bennett, seeks to calm the
tensions that led to last month’s confl ict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli human rights groups have protested the raids —
referred to in Israel as “mapping” — for years.

Airline to Off er Tel Aviv-Paris-Newark Flights
La Compagnie, a boutique French airline, said it will launch
fl ights from Tel Aviv to Paris (Orly Airport) to Newark Liberty
International Airport starting July 22, Globes reported.

Th e 76-seat planes will fl y on Mondays, Tuesdays and
Saturdays. Plane seats, all of which are business class, open into
double beds and have individual video screens and free Wi-Fi.

Maman Aviation represents La Compagnie in Israel. Since
2014, the airline has off ered business class-only fl ights between
the United States, France and Italy.

Tel Aviv Ranks as 55th Least-Stressful City
Tel Aviv placed 55th out of the 100 cities German-based Care Vaay
researched in terms of stress levels, Th e Jerusalem Post reported.

Care Vaay created an index by analyzing more than 500 cities
according to governance, structural and environmental factors,
fi nancial elements and the overall health of city residents. A fi nal
lineup of 100 cities was chosen for global comparability.

Tel Aviv scored well for weather, social security, unemploy-
ment rates and health care access, but was dinged for population
density, traffi c congestion, noise and air pollution, and the
mental health of its residents.

Neither Jerusalem nor Philadelphia was included in the
survey. Reykjavík, Iceland, ranked as the least-stressful city, followed
by Bern, Switzerland, and Helsinki, Finland, while Mumbai,
India, placed last, behind Lagos, Nigeria and Manila, Philippines.

Tel Aviv fi nished just behind Budapest, Hungary, and just
ahead of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Th e top-rated city in the United States was Houston, at 25.

Israel to Reopen Border Crossing with Jordan
Th e Wadi Araba Crossing between Israel and Jordan — known
as the Yitzhak Rabin terminal in Israel — will reopen on July
4, Th e Times of Israel reported, citing downward trends in
infection rates on both sides of the border.

Th e border was closed in March 2020 because of the pandemic.

Th e Foreign Ministry statement didn’t say if another crossing
that connects Aqaba, Jordan, and Eilat would also open.

Israelis entering Jordan will need to present a vaccina-
tion certifi cate or proof of recovery from COVID-19 — and
those staying for more than 72 hours must present a negative
polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, test result upon returning. ●
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