Word: gittins
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...Gittin suggested establishing open seminars headed by junior Faculty members to discuss international affairs...
Organized by the Rabbinical Council of America, Beth Din is primarily concerned with providing Gittin (religious divorces) to Orthodox believers, although its services are available to Reform and Conservative Jews as well. Beth Din also conducts seminars for rabbis on the complexities of Jewish marriage law and rules on such peculiarly Jewish questions as whether a marriage can be voided because the witnesses did not keep the Sabbath or dietary laws...
...must. You can never tell when you're going to fall in love with an Orthodox Jew, and when that happens a civil divorce is not enough. You must also have a religious divorce." Rabbis can grant divorces, but this has led to abuses-for example, Gittin from improperly ordained rabbis turned out to be invalid...
...wife. A rabbi then tears the edges of the parchment, and the marriage is sundered. Cost: nothing for the poor, up to $200 for those who can afford it. After that, the two have nothing to do but go get a civil divorce, for Beth Din's Gittin have no legal force in any U.S. court...
...Edwin Booth were hard put for audiences in any town where "cullud opera" was playing. In 1850 the great Booth himself gave a blackface performance at Bel Air, Md. P. T. Barnum once corked his own face and appeared in such early favorites as Zip Coon, The Raccoon Hunt, Gittin' Up Stairs. Stephen Foster wrote his masterpieces for minstrels. John Philip Sousa, Gentleman Jim Corbett and George M. Cohan's father all did their blackface stints...