The court of Appeals here today pronounced as a strictly ecclesiastical question the four-year court controversy between Orthodox and Conservative groups of the Cleveland Jewish Center and dismissed the suit of the Center’s Orthodox minority group which sought the court’s aid to re-establish Orthodox Judaism in the Center.
Appellate Judge John J. Sullivan, who wrote the opinion, was unanimously affirmed by his two associates.
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