Law & Religion issues for Law Academics
Subject: Re: Jewish law, women's bodies, and accommodations
I confess I'm stymied by the objection Meir has articulated to my
​offending
paragraph. Jewish laws regarding modesty
​surely must
reflect certain assumptions about women's b
ed, permitting a court
> to decide the *why* behind religious law is a greater intrusion into the
> religious sphere than permitting a court to decide the *what*.
>
> That analysis applies no differently when discussing religious laws
> governing modesty, regardless of the popular
t.
That analysis applies no differently when discussing religious laws governing
modesty, regardless of the popularity of those laws in civil society.
Meir Katz
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Subject: Re: Jewish law, women's bodies, and accommodations
I agree that it's not for the state to arbitrate between Hillel's and Meir's
view about what is embedded
to decide the *what*.
>
> That analysis applies no differently when discussing religious laws
> governing modesty, regardless of the popularity of those laws in civil
> society.
>
> Meir Katz
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To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics
Subject: Re: Jewish law, women's bodies, and accommodations
The last paragraph of Professor Katz's posting below seems to point to why the
separate swimming times are unconstitutional: the City of
il
society.
Meir Katz
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Subject: Jewish law, women's bodies, and accommodations
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Hillel Levin writes:
My primary opposition to the gender-segregated swim hours is not simply the
formal segregation of the sexes and the practical burdens this may pose on
people. Rather, it is that the Jewish laws relating to sexual modesty have
embedded within them, and reinforce, certain a
