A world Jewish legal convention, said to be the first of its kind in history, will be called in Jerusalem on April 1 for the purpose of regulating marriage and divorce laws, surveying Jewish rights in the Diaspora and in Palestine, establishing peace courts in Palestine and in addition to set up a legal faculty in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
According to an announcement issued today at the preparatory commission meeting here, the legal body will be named at the convention. It is to be called Beth Din Gadol and will be fashioned after the ancient Sanhedrin, which originally designated the highest political magistracy of the Holy Land. The “great Bet Din”, vested with the rights of religious authority, held its first assembly during the time of Ezra and Nehemiah.
The convention now in session will devote the last three days of its agenda to a consideration of the Beth Din Gadol.
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