US High Court Takes Ohio Home-Minyan Case

The U.S. Supreme Court docket for Daniel Grand v. City of University Heights shows certiorari granted June 30 in the Orthodox Jewish home-prayer dispute, with the court page updated July 3. Grand says a city cease-and-desist order stopped him from hosting a Shabbat minyan at home after a neighbor complained. He sued in 2022 after officials said he needed a permit to pray with friends, while lower courts treated the case as premature because the permit process was not final. The case matters for diaspora Jews because zoning power must not become a tool against Torah observance or Jewish continuity.