The board recommended that the university not become, as some would have wanted, a scaled-down version of larger conventional universities. . ..…

This is law, not Orthodox Jewish community, revealing its uncertainty even after Jahi McMath was declared brain-dead, she reacted positively to commands to move her hand on numerous video-recorded occasions. ..…

Trump may not care anything for respectability among the policy-making classes, but the officials who serve under him are for the most part entirely conventional creatures, and they have been conditioned to think that a respectable foreign policy is a foreign policy with expert imprimatur. ..…

In the United States, defense analysts and policy-makers, have, however, tended to frame these climate-related issues in conventional terms of national security, i.e. climate change as a “security threat.” ..…

But National Council of Young Israel, Orthodox association of 175 synagogues that tends to take hawkish stances on Israeli issues, defended the minister's actions as matter of political calculus.. ... In Israel, the Modern Orthodox Benny Lau condemned the merger, calling it  vote for the..…

For example, a man who saved Gerald Ford’s life by striking and grabbing the arm of an attempted assassin just as she prepared to shoot the president lost a private-facts case based on the public disclosure of his sexual orientation after a California court ruled that the man’s homosexuality was of..…

He died in 1926, his coffin carried with full Red Army honours to a Russian Orthodox monastery (Brusilov had remained pious throughout). ..…

Jean-Jacques Marie, in his history, establishes that the conventional account, according to which the civil war was over by the start of 1921, and all the “emergency” measures by the Bolsheviks after that stemmed only from the Bolsheviks’ supposed lack of democratic understanding, is false. . ..…

And the National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs and other Orthodox Jewish organizations point out that “a distinction is clearly drawn in Jewish law and tradition between the cross as a religious object and its use for secular commemorations and awards.” . ..…