News of the Weird
Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.
Rabbi Yair Silverman recently declared a ring, eight miles in circumference around his Berkeley, Calif., synagogue, to be an “eruv,” or “home,” so that his parishioners could move about more freely on the Sabbath, when Jewish law imposes some “home”-based restrictions.
Some Sunni Muslims in Saudi Arabia practice the religious, and legal (though reviled), “misyar” contract, which permits a couple to be married but live separately, joining sometimes only for sex, and without financial responsibility for each other, according to a July Reuters dispatch from Riyadh.
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