Hi, Ed, I’m not Jewish or male, but I see in Monmouth County that they want to press charges against a rabbi who was holding a minyan (prayer service) at his house for 10 men. It’s not against the law for those 10 men to get together to watch a football game or drink beer or play cards, so why is it against the law to pray?

Observant

Good question. Who really knows the answer? But I would bet that it has something to do with the rabbi not donating to the right political minion.

— Ed. Note