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What began as a two-minute ritual inside a Florida country club has grown into a federal civil rights case — and the latest flashpoint in a growing debate about religious expression in shared spaces.
Isaac Scharf, an Orthodox Jewish father of five, was suspended in March from the clubhouse of Boca Grove, a gated community in Boca Raton with more than 400 homes, after a video surfaced showing him helping a guest put on tefillin — small leather boxes traditionally wrapped on the head and arm at the start of weekday morning prayers. A week later, the suspension was extended to his entire family, including his wife and young children…