Sermon Description:
A dozen states are considering or have already enacted legislation regarding Ten Commandments displays in public schools. The Fifth Circuit recently rejected challenges to both Louisiana’s and Texas's Ten Commandments display laws, upholding the laws as constitutional. The Eighth Circuit is reviewing the appeal of a similar Arkansas law. The Texas case, Rabbi Nathan v. Alamo Heights ISD, may go to the Supreme Court. Rabbi Segal's talk will take a closer look at arguments about the nature of the Ten Commandments as a religious text and its relation to the Establishment Clause.
Segal attended rabbinical seminary at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, studying in Jerusalem and New York City. After his 2010 ordination, he served a congregation in Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley of Colorado with his wife and co-clergy, Cantor Rollin Simmons. In 2017, Segal moved back to his hometown of Houston, Texas, to found RAC-TX as its lead organizer, overseeing statewide social justice campaigns through several sessions of the Texas Legislature.
While working as a community organizer, Segal felt called to law school on his path toward working at the intersection of faith and public life. He enrolled at the University of Houston Law Center, where he graduated magna cum laude in 2024 and was a member of the Houston Law Review. Segal then spent one year as a clerk for the Honorable Yvonne Y. Ho, Magistrate Judge, Southern District of Texas-Houston Division. Segal and his wife, Rollin Simmons, have two children and live in Houston.
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