{"id":415550,"date":"2023-03-25T08:50:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T05:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=415550"},"modified":"2023-03-25T08:50:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T05:50:43","slug":"1st-hijab-wearing-judge-sworn-in-in-the-us-to-join-new-jersey-superior-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/1st-hijab-wearing-judge-sworn-in-in-the-us-to-join-new-jersey-superior-court\/","title":{"rendered":"1st hijab-wearing judge sworn in in the US to join New Jersey Superior Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey, (SONNA) &#8211; US attorney Nadia Kahf has been appointed to the New Jersey Superior Court, becoming the first hijab-wearing judge on the bench, local media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Kahf, a Syrian-origin family law and immigration attorney from the township of Wayne, took the oath of office on Thursday with her hand on a copy of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, according to local news website North Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>She will serve as a Passaic County Superior Court judge after New Jersey&#8217;s Governor Phil Murphy nominated her a year ago, according to local media.<\/p>\n<p>Though Kahf is not the first Muslim woman to serve as a state judge, she is the first to wear a hijab on the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2003, she has sat on the board of the New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights organization where Kahf now serves as chairwoman.<\/p>\n<p>She is also the legal adviser to Wafa House, a nonprofit domestic violence and social services agency based in the city of Clifton, and chairwoman of the Islamic Center of Passaic County.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Anadolu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey, (SONNA) &#8211; US attorney Nadia Kahf has been appointed to the New Jersey Superior Court, becoming the first hijab-wearing judge on the bench, local media reported. Kahf, a Syrian-origin family law and immigration attorney from the township of Wayne, took the oath of office on Thursday with her hand on a copy of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":415551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-415550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415552,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415550\/revisions\/415552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}