Plaintiff Gerald Groff is a Sunday Sabbath observer whose religious beliefs dictate that Sunday is meant for worship and rest. Groff's inability to receive a reasonable accommodation from his employer ...
WASHINGTON (CN) — A decade ago the U.S. Postal Service announced it was teaming up with Amazon to do something it had never done before: making deliveries on Sunday. While aiming to regain ...
Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in a case that could reverse a decades-old precedent and expand the rights of workers seeking accommodations from employers due to their ...
The House Committee on the District of Columbia last week held hearings on the Lankford bill, which is proposed by the Lord’s Day Alliance to make Washington the model city of the country. The bill ...
Enactment of a bill exempting observers of the seventh-day Sabbath from provisions of the Maryland Sunday closing laws was hailed by the Council of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of Baltimore, which ...
A three-panel U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, however, with one judge dissenting, held that the accommodation Groff sought (exemption from Sunday work) would cause an undue hardship on ...
The U.S. Supreme Court, iseen in Washington Oct. 2, 2022, is scheduled to to hear oral arguments in Groff v. DeJoy April 18, 2023, a case that could have broad implications for employees seeking ...
When I asked you, dear readers, in a recent column to share with me the ways you honor the Sabbath Day, I was anticipating a flood of responses from orthodox Jewish readers. I was therefore surprised ...
The Jewish Sabbath Alliance of America has sent a communication to all members of the New York State Legislature, signed by its president, Dr. Bernard Drachman, urging the enactment into law of a ...
College of the Ozarks is scaling back its Sunday operations, in observance of the sabbath, and that includes shutting down its popular Sunday brunch at The Keeter Center. The Sunday brunch will ...
When I lived on campus last summer, I had an overwhelming amount of free time on the weekends. On Friday nights, I would go to Shabbat dinners hosted by Jewish friends. We would pack into sweltering ...