![]() ![]() “Religious discrimination has no place in our society and runs counter to the founding principles of our nation,” said Craig Carpenito, U.S. The Department of Justice will use the full force of its authority to stop such anti-Semitic conduct and prevent its recurrence.” “Using zoning laws to target Orthodox Jewish individuals for intentional discrimination and exclude them from a community is illegal and utterly incompatible with this Nation’s values,” said Eric Dreiband, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. The Justice Department today announced that it filed a lawsuit against the township of Jackson and the township’s planning board, alleging that they violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) and the Fair Housing Act (FHA) by targeting the Orthodox Jewish community through zoning ordinances restricting religious schools and barring religious boarding schools. ![]()
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