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Orthodox Union Joins Sen. Schumer’s Proposal at Press Conference Today to Double Federal Funding for Security Grants for Synagogues, Other Houses of Worship to $360 Million
The Orthodox Union today joined Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in proposing to double funding for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) to $360 million to better protect synagogues, other houses of worship and other nonprofits at risk of terror attacks. Orthodox Union Executive Director for Public Policy Nathan Diament spoke alongside Sen. Schumer and faith leaders at the press conference in midtown Manhattan, calling for the increase to program.
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Watch: OUA/Teach Coalition Exclusive Briefing on Supreme Court Case re Day School Funding
This week, as the Supreme Court began hearing arguments in Carson v Makin regarding Maine’s prohibition on funding tuition for religious schools in that state’s tuition assistance program, the OU Advocacy Center and the Teach Coalition hosted an exclusive briefing on the case with Nathan Diament, Executive Director of the OU Advocacy Center and Professor Avi Helfand, Vice Dean of Pepperdine Law School & Visiting Professor at Yale Law School.
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OUA in the WSJ: “The Supreme Court Takes Up Religious Liberty—Again”
The Supreme Court heard arguments Dec. 8 in Carson v. Makin - addressing whether state government funding programs can discriminate against religion. This marks third time the court has taken up the issue in the past five years. It has already prohibited excluding religious institutions simply because they are religious institutions, but it equivocated on whether governments can deny funding that would be used for religious purposes. The justices should now make clear that all forms of religious exclusion in government funding are unacceptable.
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Take Action Now So Federal Childcare & Pre-K Serve All Faiths and Backgrounds
More than half of American families who send their children to faith-based childcare and pre-K providers. are about to be excluded from new federal programs under the new Build Back Better Act.
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Orthodox Union Applauds Passage of Bipartisan Nonprofit Energy Efficiency Act within Infrastructure Deal
The Orthodox Union welcomed the passage of the groundbreaking Nonprofit Energy Efficiency Act included in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework legislation; it was passed in August by the U.S. Senate and signed into law by President Biden on Nov. 15. A decade ago, the OU Advocacy Center spearheaded the creation of the bipartisan provision, which creates a $50 million grant program for day schools, shuls and other nonprofits.
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The Orthodox Union Advocacy Center is the non-partisan public policy arm of the nation’s largest Orthodox Jewish organization‚ representing nearly 1,000 congregations nationwide, and leads the OU’s advocacy efforts in Washington, DC, and state capitals.

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