A Long Island rabbi who works at a Reform Jewish seminary has convinced a judge that her function is not so administrative as to disqualify her from receiving the partial tax exemption the state makes available to members of the clergy.
In Altman v. Assessment Review Commission of the County of Nassau, 408348-2010, Acting Justice Thomas A. Adams ruled the Nassau County Assessment Review Commission had offered “no rational basis for its strained construction [of the statute] and corresponding denial” of the tax benefit.
Acting Justice Thomas Adams
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