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...white bridal gown, and organ chords from Lohengrin; most divorces are carried out in the dry, drab ritual of a civil court.But unlike Catholics and Protestants, Orthodox Jews have their own formal religious ceremony to sunder a marriage.Performing this seldom seen rite is the job of Manhattan's Beth Din (meaning court of justice), which last week completed its first full year of operation as the nation's most unusual divorce tribunal...
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...
...group has already launched a research project which has unearthed a congressional report of 1959 indicating a mammouth expense of the sort of shelter programs that would do any good. Robert W. Colman '56, a resident in hematology at the Beth Israel Hospital and member of the organization's Project Committee said that the group intends to contact similar organizations in countries throughout the world, including those behind the iron curtain...
...BETH KLOPMAN...
...Wright designed at least four other sectarian churches in recent years: the Unitarian Meeting House at Madison, Wis., a Congregational church at Redding, Calif., Beth Sholom Synagogue at Elkins Park, Pa., and a Christian Science church for Bolinas, Calif...