Category Archives: Legislation
A Proposed Approach to Blocking Anti Mezuzah Co-Op and Condo Regulations
There have been several cases in which plaintiffs sued for the right to affix or leave a Mezuzah on an outside doorpost of an apartment, after a co-op or condo board required removal based upon a co-op or condo rule. For many years, courts held that the Fair Housing Act (FHA) prohibited religious discrimination against […]
Jewish opposition to the Holocaust Insurance Accountability Act of 2010
When is a contract not a contract? JTA reports today that six Jewish organizations have signed a letter opposing the Holocaust Insurance Accountability Act of 2010. The American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League, B’nai B’rith International, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, the World Jewish Congress and the World Jewish Restitution Organization condemned […]
Elena Kagan and Arlen Specter on Holocaust era insurance claims
Solicitor General Elena Kagan says she doesn’t want to count her chickens. Senator Arlen Specter says he is one of her chickens. The issue was how Kagan, if confirmed to the Supreme Court, would vote on a petition requesting that the Court hear an appeal from a decision by the Second Circuit which held that […]
Agudath Israel opposes the proposed NYS organ donation bill
I mentioned in the previous post that religious organizations would be lobbying hard against the proposed New York State legislation that would presume that applicants for driver licenses consent to organ donation unless they affirmatively opt out of the program. Apparently Agudath Israel has already circulated a memo to members of the New York State […]
Proposed legislation in New York to presume consent to organ donation
Currently in New York a person can affirmatively choose to be an organ donor. This is typically done when applying for a New York State driver license or by checking and signing the box on the reverse side of a driver license. New York State assemblyman Richard Brodsky has introduced legislation that would reverse the […]
Holocaust Insurance Accountability Act of 2010
In an Op-Ed for JTA in December 2009, U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) wrote: Although more than 60 years have passed since the world witnessed the atrocities committed by Hitler’s regime, many Holocaust-era compensation issues remain unresolved. One of these issues includes the continued failure of insurance companies to pay Holocaust survivors or families of […]
