Here are reports of the trial and conviction this week in London of Mehmet Goren for the murder of his 15-year old daughter, Tulay Goren who had left home to live with a boyfriend. Karen McVeigh’s piece in The Guardian and Nico Hines’s article in The Times give more detail about the case.
Who is a Jew, for school admission purposes?
One intractable problem in multiculturalism has been the boundary problem: when religious or cultural groups have public recognition and some measure of authority or control over group members or public resources, how are the boundaries of group membership defined? This is a long-standing problem in countries like Israel that regulate many family law questions based on religious law, and it occasionally crops up in other settings, like this enrollment dispute involving the state-financed Jews’ Free School in London. Britain’s Supreme Court ruled this week in a 5-4 decision in
Multicultural Families in Korea
“Baby Boom of Mixed Children Tests South Korea,” a story by Martin Fackler in the New York Times, reports on the many births that have occurred in recent years to hundreds of thousands of married couples formed by Korean men and women from other countrieses in Asia. Fackler reports that these are known as multicultural families in Korea, and they tend to be concentrated in the poorer rural farming areas. Marriages to foreigners were 11 percent of all marriages in South Korea in 2008.
Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn turning to civil authorities in child abuse cases
Paul Vitello reports in the New York Times that ultra-orthodox haredim who have long avoided reporting crimes within their community have begun to turn to police and prosecutors in cases of child sexual abuse. Vitello describes measures taken by District Attorney Charles Hynes to build ties within the community; the story indicates that prosecutors in Brooklyn have pursued 26 of these cases this year – a small percentage of the total number of these cases, which run about 700 per year, but a d
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