Word: yeshivas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When Yeshiva Student Jesper Jehoshua Sloma, 23, was killed by an Arab sniper last month in Hebron on Israel's occupied West Bank, a three-doctor panel at Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital authorized the transplant of his kidneys to save two patients. Many Israelis were incensed that one of the recipients was a twelve-year-old Arab girl wearing a Palestine Liberation Organization bracelet, but the transplant particularly offended many Orthodox Jews. To them, religious law forbids tampering with corpses in any way, either by transplants or autopsies, and last week they pursued their campaign to outlaw autopsies...
...decision applies only to New York's Yeshiva University, but B.U. has a similar case pending before the Supreme Court. The decision ruled that faculty members at private universities are "managerial" employees whose attempts to unionize do not apply to the National Labor Relations...
...awaited response to born-again Bok's call for a complete overhaul of the Core curriculum "to provide a Christian education at Harvard, like it was always meant to be." Before hundreds of screaming supporters at the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, Rosovsky calls for the formation of an autonomous Harvard Yeshiva...