The ITIM Legal Center takes legal action on religion-and-State issues affecting Jewish life to protect citizens’ civil rights, promote Jewish pluralism, and ensure equal access to State religious services. Its in-house attorneys file due diligence letters and Freedom of Information Act requests, and, when necessary, go to court. The Center has won precedent-setting cases that have required the State to reinstate citizens’ official Jewish status following unwarranted Jewish identity investigations, to officially recognize the Jewish identity of individuals who convert through non-governmental conversion courts, and to allow women to serve in professional positions within the State rabbinical court system.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the ITIM Legal Center has undertaken a statewide mikveh survey, and has ensured that dozens of mikvehs that did not meet State sanitary requirements were brought up to standard.