Beit Din sets Friday deadline for Shulamith response

Issue of August 15, 2008

The Beth Din of America set a Friday deadline for Shulamith School for

Girls to respond to a second hazmana to a din torah.

A group of parents of Shulamith students in Brooklyn brought the din

torah, and a simultaneous civil case. They hope to prevent the sale of the

Flatbush campus and transfer of the proceeds to Bnot Shulamith in the Five

Towns.

In a letter dated Aug. 6, the rabbinical court put aside the school's

contention that "there are threshold issues that need to be resolved before

the case may be heard on its merits." Those matters will be dealt with at

the beginning of the din torah, wrote Rabbi Shlomo Weissman, the director of

the court.

"This is the second summons," the letter continued. "We ask that you

respond no later than August 15, 2008."

A message for Rabbi Moshe Zwick, Shulamith's executive director, was not

returned before the newspaper went to press Tuesday.