From the Windy City comes this story of an ill wind blowing between a divorced couple, over religion and the raising of their daughter:

Rebecca Reyes opened an e-mail from her estranged husband last November to learn he’d had their 3-year-old daughter baptized in the Catholic Church — despite his pledge to raise her in the Jewish faith, she said.

When she complained, a Cook County judge took the unusual step of temporarily barring Reyes’ husband, Joseph, from exposing their child to any faith other than Judaism.

Joseph Reyes allegedly defied the order by taking his daughter to Mass, with a television news crew in tow.

His wife’s lawyers blasted his defiance and demanded that he be held in criminal contempt.

As the couple’s private battles flare into the open, the case has raised questions about how far the courts can — or should — go in dictating which religion parents teach their children.

Joseph Reyes, a law student, said he decided to take his daughter to a Catholic church despite the court order after she’d asked about her paternal grandparents. He told her they were at church, and she asked to go there, he said.

His lawyer, Joel Brodsky, said every parent has a right to take their child to their place of worship “as long as it is not a harm to the child.”

“I cannot see how taking a child to a baptism or church could ever be a harm to a child,” Brodsky said.

Circuit Court Judge Elizabeth Loredo-Rivera, who was brought into the case at the father’s request to replace Judge Edward Jordan, said Tuesday that she will set a date for trial on the contempt charge. If convicted, Joseph Reyes could face six months in jail.

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