A former judge at the London Beit Din agreed to reimburse the religious court for books worth some $800,000 that are missing from the court’s library. Casriel Kaplin, a noted bibliophile and full-time Beit Din judge in London from 1976 to 1994, was dismissed as a part-time consultant to the court last year after it was noticed that the books were missing. The scandal erupted when a rare 15th century volume offered for sale last year in Israel was found to have come from the London collection.
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