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1The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman —   …
2Hikari Ota's If I Were Prime Minister... Secretary Tanaka — Prime Minister Ōta Hikari Ōta s If I Were Prime Minister of Japan... Secretary Tanaka (太田光の私が総理大臣になったら…秘書田中。, Ōta Hikari no Watashi ga Sōridaijin ni Nattara... Hisho Tanaka …
3PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE — CIVIL Court Sessions The courts of three (judges) exercising jurisdiction in civil matters (see bet din ) held their sessions during the day, but – following Jethro s advice to Moses that judges should be available at all times (Ex. 18:22) – they …
4HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …
5Australia — /aw strayl yeuh/, n. 1. a continent SE of Asia, between the Indian and the Pacific oceans. 18,438,824; 2,948,366 sq. mi. (7,636,270 sq. km). 2. Commonwealth of, a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, consisting of the federated states and… …
6BET DIN AND JUDGES — (Heb. בֵּית דִּין; lit. house of judgment ). Bet din (pl. battei din) is the term, in rabbinic sources, for a Jewish court of law. In modern times it usually refers to an ecclesiastical court dealing with religious matters such as divorce, and… …
7AGUDAT ISRAEL — (Heb. אֲגֻדַּת יִשְׂרָאֵל; Union or Association of Israel), world Jewish movement and political party seeking to preserve orthodoxy by adherence to halakhah as the principle governing Jewish life and society. The ideal on which Jewish life should …
8CONFLICT OF LAWS — (also called Private International Law) is a branch of the law dealing with the adjudication of a matter which involves some foreign element, for instance, the fact that one of the parties is a foreign citizen, or that the matter at issue arose,… …
9Poland — /poh leuhnd/, n. a republic in E central Europe, on the Baltic Sea. 38,700,291; ab. 121,000 sq. mi. (313,400 sq. km). Cap.: Warsaw. Polish, Polska. * * * Poland Introduction Poland Background: Poland is an ancient nation that was conceived around …
102009 Nobel Peace Prize — U.S. President Barack Obama receiving the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize …
