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...Supreme Court rulings that have forbidden mandated school prayers along with "moments of silence" to foster praying and clergy prayers at school graduations. These efforts come, moreover, at a time when the court is re-examining a cornerstone of its rulings on church and state: the so-called Lemon test, which has forbidden virtually all government involvement with religion...
...pending high-court decision could change the landscape significantly. It revolves around the 1971 Lemon ruling, which bars tax support for salaries and secular textbooks in religious day schools. The decision set up a three-part test to determine whether a government action is an unconstitutional infringement of church-state separation: an action must have a "secular legislative purpose," avoid "excessive government entanglement with religion" and have a "primary effect" that "neither advances nor inhibits religion...
Many legal experts and religious leaders feel that the Lemon test is at best confusing, at worst unfair, and in any event destined to change. The current challenge has come in the case of Kiryas Joel v. Grumet. Kiryas Joel is a municipality in upstate New York where virtually all citizens are in the Satmar sect of Hasidic Orthodox Jewry. Kiryas Joel adheres rigidly to Old World dress and ways and maintains a close-knit, Yiddish-speaking community that tries to shield itself from outside influences. TV, movies and even higher education are shunned...
...children in town attend religious day schools with no government support. The dispute centers on the town's handicapped youngsters. They used to be trained by public school teachers at an annex to a religious school; then, in 1985, the Supreme Court decided that Lemon forbids such cooperation. After busing the handicapped kids to an existing public school for several years, the Satmar parents, seeking to shield the children from harassment, set up their own local public school, where costly special education is made possible by state and federal...
Other house specialties include Currier's bamboo shoots, which grow only in the quad's northern climate. Kirkland gets jalapeno peppers; Leverett gets baby corn. Adams, Lowell and Quincy salad bars offer beets. Only Lowell offers lemon pepper vinaigrette...