The Yale five. (five Orthodox Jews being forced to conform to Yale rules)

Commonweal | July 17, 1998| | Copyright

Life apart: A religious freedom?

There are five Orthodox Jews, all first-year students at Yale, who are challenging a rule that says they must live in Yale's mixed-sex dormitories. I wish them well. Their case is complicated by the fact that Yale is a private university which has the right to make its own rules, but the case has larger implications, and the argument the students are making is one that should matter to people who think religion is more than a matter of private taste.

Let me begin by saying that the legal case here is made somewhat more difficult ...

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