SCOTUS Agrees to Hear Case of a City Barring a Minyan in a Private Home

“WE DON’T WANT YOUR KIND HERE”: BRANDEIS CENTER URGES SUPREME COURT TO GRANT RELIEF TO JEWISH MAN THREATENED WITH JAILTIME FOR INVITING A MINYAN TO PRAY WITH HIM IN HIS HOME - Brandeis Center

Neighbors allegedly warned “we don’t want your kind here” and feared neighborhood would be “labeled as Jewish”; city threatened jail and enlisted police and neighbors to monitor family for “unauthorized” Jewish prayer Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Supreme Court has granted certiorari in Grand v. City of University Heights, a religious freedom case involving an

SCOTUS agrees to hear case of a city barring a minyan in a private home

Grand, who lives with his family a distance from the nearest Orthodox synagogue, sought to gather a minyan, a group of ten Jewish adults required for key prayers, at his home on Shabbat and holy days when Jewish law prohibits driving. Before Grand held even a single prayer gathering, a neighbor complained to the city’s mayor and asked him to “put a stop to this.”