The Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision that a city may present a Nativity scene as part of an official Christian display without violating the Constitution is assailed by American Jewish organizations in some of the sharpest criticisms ever voiced by such agencies against the highest court in the land.
The Senate rejects by a vote of 56-11, 11 short of the two-thirds of the Senate needed for approval, the proposed constitutional amendment allowing prayer in public schools.
Five Holocaust survivors from Yugoslavia who are now American citizens, file a class action suit against Andrija Artukovic, the former Minister of Interior of the Nazi-puppet state of Croatia, where thousands of Jews were killed during the Holocaust. The five seek to recover compensatory and punitive damages for personal loss and injury sustained by them as a result of Artukovic’s crimes.
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