A method developed by a rabbinic student helped convince an international tribunal that a former Bosnian military officer is competent to stand trial for war crimes. The U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ruled Monday that Gen. Pavle Strugar is competent to stand trial, in part because of testimony from Dr. Bennett Blum, a forensic psychiatrist and student at the Academy for Jewish Religion in Los Angeles.
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