You can sign up here to receive it Tuesdays and Thursdays. On Wednesday, a day after a deadly shooting at a kosher supermarket in New Jersey, President Trump signed an executive order advising the Department of Education to consider controversial definitions of anti-Semitism when “vigorously” enforcing anti-discrimination law in schools and on college campuses. If you happened to be scrolling through Twitter on Tuesday, you might have read that the order reclassifies Judaism as a nationality — but that’s not correct. The details: At issue is Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans discrimination in programs and activities receiving federal aid on the basis of race, color or national origin — but not religion. Nonetheless, the law has for many years been interpreted to protect against religious discrimination when based on a person’s actual or perceived citizenship of a country whose residents share a dominant religious identity.

Source: International New York Times December 12, 2019 22:52 UTC