Confidence-breaking clergy can't be sued, N.Y. court finds. (AU Bulletin).Two New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of rabbis List of rabbis. This is a list of prominent rabbis. Rabbis are Judaism's spiritual and religious leaders. See also: List of Jews. Rabbis: Pre-Mishnaic (Tannaim)
n. One who congregates, especially a member of a group of people gathered for religious worship. Noun 1. congregant - a member of a congregation (especially that of a church or synagogue) cannot be held financially responsible for breaking confidence, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the state's high court. In a unanimous ruling Nov. 27, the judges concluded in Lightman v. Flaum that a Long Island Orthodox Jewish woman could not sue her rabbis for damages after the two religious leaders disclosed information to her husband during divorce proceedings. Chani Lightman told her rabbis that despite being Orthodox, she had dropped some Orthodox observances. The rabbis felt compelled under Jewish law to tell her husband, Hylton Lightman, about her practices, which he then used during divorce proceedings as an argument for custody of the couple's four children. New York's highest court said it is not the role of the state to determine whether members of the clergy had violated vi·o·late tr.v. vi·o·lat·ed, vi·o·lat·ing, vi·o·lates 1. To break or disregard (a law or promise, for example). 2. To assault (a person) sexually. 3. the confidentiality rules of their faith. "The prospect of conducting a trial to determine whether a cleric's disclosure is in accord with religious tenets has troubling constitutional implications," Judge Victoria Graffeo wrote on behalf of the court. |
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