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Ohio Man Had To Petition SCOTUS To Host In-Home Prayer Group

‘We want God in the home. I should not have a government telling me that I have no right to have God in my home. Yes, I do.’

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Daniel Grand, a devout Orthodox Jew from University Heights, Ohio, is petitioning the Supreme Court claiming he was effectively blocked from hosting an in-home prayer group by his local government.

In 2021, Grand sent an email to his friends inviting them to join him at his home for the “inauguration” of a shul that would host Jewish religious services, including prayer groups. That email was leaked to others in the town, who reported Grand to the city and asked them to “put a stop to this,” according to Alliance Defending Freedom. The next day, Grand received a cease-and-desist letter from the city’s law director ordering him to shut down his illegal “place of religious assembly.”

“The whole purpose of this was because the synagogue is over a mile from Daniel’s house, and it gets cold in Cleveland in the winters, and he wanted to set up a place where his friends could come [to pray] on Saturday, when they can’t drive,” said Grand’s lawyer Jonathan Gross.

Grand told the Federalist that the city of University Heights ordered him to seek a commercial special-use permit for his home, which is required for churches and........

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