Judge gives Jewish sailor temporary pass from US Navy order to shave beard
Judge gives Jewish sailor temporary pass from US Navy order to shave beard
Edmund Di Liscia said that doing so would be “extremely humiliating and deeply jarring to my psyche and soul.”
U.S. Navy sailors. Credit: Anthony Correia/Shutterstock.
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Electrician’s Mate (Nuclear) 3rd Class Edmund Di Liscia, a Torah-observant Jew aboard the aircraft carrier
Theodore Roosevelt, was ordered to shave his beard by Friday. He previously received a religious accommodation that allowed him to wear a beard in uniform, though was told by his ship’s command that the rule had been overridden.
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