The Jewish Chronicle, 10th November 2011

The Liberal movement has given a nod towards tradition by deciding to rename the rabbinic board that supervises its conversions as its Beit Din.

Beit Din head Rabbi Andrew Goldstein explained: "We having been using Hebrew nomenclature for everything else we do and this was the last of the old Liberal titles.

"The European Union of Progressive Judaism has a beit din, Reform has a beit din. We called ours a rabbinic board but the name didn't seem to mean very much." Read more