Rabbi's Prayer Group Banned ; Law Regulates Religious Action in Private Homes

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Rabbi Avraham Bernstein used to welcome family, friends and neighbors to his home each Friday to observe the Sabbath until Freehold, N.J., adopted an ordinance that regulates religious activity in private homes.

Now the rabbi, 40, is suing the Monmouth County township, arguing that it has infringed on his right to worship freely by deeming his private home in a residential neighborhood a "house of worship."

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Rabbi's Prayer Group Banned ; Law Regulates Religious Action in Private Homes

Township officials have gone so far as to secretly install a surveillance camera on a municipal building across the street from the rabbi's home to monitor the comin...

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