Rabbi Hanoch Teller has continued his now long-running series on Jews in the US military whose religious exercise, and their interaction with the military leadership, ultimately set the stage for military religious freedom today.<\/p>\n
In Part VIII, Teller expounds<\/a> on some of the backstory to Rabbi Goldman’s attempt to wear a yarmulke in uniform, highlighting the military’s need to have a “compelling interest” and the way the military created that compelling interest: by saying they yarmulke detracted from the Air Force’s requirement for uniformity and “good order and discipline.”<\/p>\n The timing of Teller’s discussion on this issue is interesting, given the recent Supreme Court appeal in US v Sterling<\/em><\/a> — in which the Marines allegedly failed to cite a compelling interest in restricting a Marine’s religious act.<\/p>\n Read Teller’s prior articles<\/a>.<\/p>\n ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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