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This week inthe NJJN:

Full coverage of Ben-Ami Kadish, the NJ retiree accused of spying for Israel.

Immigration woes for a Venezuelan doctor, who fears a return to his “anti-Semitic” native land.

We cover the pope’s visit (our guy was the one without the yarmulke).

Take a knee, fellas: A coach’s prayer case splits Jewish experts:

Marc Stern, of the American Jewish Congress, said he was troubled by a “very narrow reading” of legal precedents.

According to Stern, the ruling suggests that a coach without Borden’s long history of leading or encouraging students to pray would be allowed to join them, “and that’s a big problem.”

“The judges were obviously bending over backwards to create teachers’ rights to engage in religion with their students, but there is no such right,” Stern said. “No court has recognized a free speech right or an academic freedom right to engage in religious activity with one’s students. This court does that. It is problematic.”