Jewish law, secular court

BROOKLYN — A federal court in New York declined to issue an injunction that would have kept an Orthodox Jewish woman and her business from disseminating a seiruv, a sort of civil contempt order issued by a Jewish rabbinical court, to members of their community claiming that another woman failed to appear in religious court on claims related to her former employment. That woman says this is all part of a harassment campaign, but the First Amendment’s establishment clause prohibits the federal court from weighing in on questions of religious law.