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...final course drop forms are dutifully submitted, finalizing the class roster: 45 percent Jewish, 18 percent Asian, 100 percent male. The tribe has spoken...
...Jews, three opinions. It?s an old joke, but, as a decision by Judaism?s Conservative branch Wednesday on the explosive topic of gay ordination and gay unions proved, still a valid one. Two slightly differing opinions handed down by Conservatism?s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards favored maintaining the branch?s official position forbidding homosexuality. But a third, contradictory opinion, affirmed both gay unions and ordination. And all it took was one out of three to change Conservative history: any rabbi is now free to perform such a union and any seminary to make such a rabbi...
...council to settle such civil matters as property disputes and divorce battles, though their rulings are not legally binding. The system is much like that used by observant Jews, who regularly take civil matters to a Beth Din rabbinical court in north London, where they are resolved according to Jewish...
...very few people - and certainly not all those who sit on the Sharia councils - believe the courts should stray into criminal matters or particularly sticky disputes. All they would like, say Sharia law supporters, is to be officially recognized as a court of arbitration, like the London Beth Din Jewish court...
EFFECT Helped decrease Jewish-Catholic tensions after a previous papal document apologized on behalf of Christianity's errant members but not for any acts of the church...