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Last week, over the dissent of Justice Samuel Alito, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case involving a prison’s refusal to allow a Jewish man to study the Torah with others because of the prison official’s erroneous interpretation of Jewish doctrine.

We celebrated Jan. 16 as National Religious Freedom Day, an annual reminder of why religious freedom is so important to our country. This fundamental right means that everyone is free to pursue the truth without the threat of government coercion, and everyone is free to live by his or her conscience. This freedom precedes any law or regulation, because it’s a pre-political right shared by all people. That’s why it’s enshrined in the First Amendment of the Constitution.

In addition to Rabbi Daniel Fridman’s shiur on Lincoln’s Second Inaugural, which was open to the TABC community on Presidents Day, TABC marked the holiday by tapping into their creative faculties, presidential knowledge, and proclivities for scholarship at a multifaceted schoolwide program.

The 'humiliating' episode unfolded when Roberto and Elana Birman were flying home to Brooklyn from Miami on Flight 322 in August