Nadia Kahf, a hijab-wearing attorney from Wayne, has drawn a standing-room crowd at the Passaic County Courthouse, New Jersey as she was sworn in as Superior Court judge in the state, in an event that sparked international headlines describing her as trailblazer. That barrier was broken again the very next day when Dalya Youssef, a family law attorney who also wears the Islamic headscarf, was sworn into the Superior Court bench in Somerset County. For Muslim women, who have long faced harmful stereotypes about their religion and their role in…
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