In testimony yesterday before the House
Committee on Oversight and Government
Reform, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik of New York’s
Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, and Director
of the Straus Center for Torah and Western
Thought at Yeshiva University, said the recent HHS directive in Obamacare treats some religious organizations as
entitled to First Amendment protection and
others—those that serve other faiths—as not
meriting protection. This distinction is alien
not only to Christianity, but quintessentially to
Judaism, whose essence lies not only in “wrapping
oneself in the blatant trappings of religious
observance such as phylacteries” but in morally
engaging with the world, Jewish or not.
http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/docLib/20120223_JIWEEKLY0224p3.pdf
