A representative from a leading U.S. rabbinical court is seeking Israeli rabbinical opinions on men missing in the World Trade Center disaster. The purpose of the move by the Beit Din of America is to declare the eight missing men dead according to Jewish religious law, allowing their widows to remarry.
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