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However, the board's involvement in the case has divided the Jewish community, with some questioning its neutrality. "This is the great con," says Geoffrey Alderman, an expert on Anglo-Jewry at the University of Buckingham. Alderman points out that the board is bound by its constitution to defer to its most senior ecclesiastical authority, Sir Jonathan Sacks, on matters of religion - and Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the U.K.'s mainstream synagogues, is head of the United Synagogue, which has already spent $225,000 helping JFS defend its case. (Read "Avigdor Lieberman: Politically Incorrect...
...Supreme Court rules in JFS's favor, it will save the school from having to devise religious-observance tests that, according to Susan Jacobs, an expert in Jewish ethnicity at Manchester Metropolitan University, could have the unexpected result of excluding nonpracticing Jews. But if the appeal fails, it could open the way for pupils refused entry to JFS - and any other religious school - to sue the school for racial discrimination. (Read "What Do Religions Believe? A Website with Answers...
...financial crisis came about because we got complacent, depending on all-knowing financial experts - mortgage lenders, Wall Street sharpers, the Federal Reserve - to run our system expertly. But then the experts did the same thing, imagining that they had laid off all their risks on other experts. Until finally the last expert down the line turned out to be just another greater fool, and the system crashed...
...determine the correct leverage ratio for banks." Me neither, and I don't want to depend on an amateur physician telling me how to manage my health. But we can trust our reality-based hunches about fishy-looking procedures and unsustainable projects and demand that the supposed experts explain their supposed expertise in ways we do understand The American character is two-sided to an extreme and paradoxical degree. On the one hand, we are sober and practical and commonsensical, but on the other hand, we are wild and crazy speculators. The full-blown amateur spirit derives from this same...
...Western negotiators in the coming weeks. But that package is unlikely to reflect any shift in Tehran's rejection of the U.S. demand that it forgo the right to enrich uranium as part of its nuclear-energy program. "If the U.S. position remains unchanged," says Farideh Farhi, an Iran expert at the University of Hawaii, "Iran may well come to the table, but only in order to demonstrate to its own people that its regime has been recognized, not to seriously engage with U.S. proposals or give ground." (See TIME's photos: "The Long Shadow of Ayatullah Khomeini...