Daniel Grand, an Orthodox Jew, wanted to organize a prayer gathering in his Ohio home in 2021.
But what started as a potential gathering for friends soon turned into a national battle over religious liberty. The city of University Heights in Ohio sent him a cease-and-desist letter stating that he needed a permit to host a quorum—known as a minyan—of 10 Jewish men for prayer in his house.
“We’re in a world where a local government can come, give you a cease-and-desist order, and say you can’t pray in your house, and that’s America?” Grand told The Epoch Times. “It just sounds so un-American.” …