Chasidic Cadet Challenges NYPD's Beard Law
THE JEWISH WEEK
By Stewart Ain
NEW YORK---The New York Police Department bars officers from sporting beards except to accommodate medical or religious requests – and even then the beard can be no longer than one millimeter in length. A Chasidic Jew who was fired from the Police Academy in June 2012 because he refused to trim his beard is set to challenge that rule in a trial that begins next month. To avoid it, the dismissed cadet, Fishel Litzman, told Manhattan Federal Judge Harold Baer Jr., that the facts are undisputed and asked that he rule that the department violated his civil rights. [link]
By Stewart Ain
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| Fishel Litzman. Image courtesy of LeoAffairs Blog |