According to Sagan, they were Reform Jews, the more liberal of Judaism's three main groups.

According to some sources, the Reform movement has maintained that a Jew who has converted to another religion is no longer a Jew, and the Israeli Government has also taken that stance after Supreme Court cases and statutes.

According to Herbert C. Brichtothe, writing in Reform Judaism's Hebrew Union College Annual, the family tomb is the central concept in understanding biblical views of the afterlife.

According to Joseph Telushkin and Morris N. Kertzer, Kaplan's " rationalist rejection of the traditional Jewish understanding of God exerted a powerful influence " on many Conservative and Reform rabbis.

According to j. the Jewish news weekly, " mainstream rabbinical leaders of the Reform, Conservative and Orthodox movements " have questioned private ordinations such as Lerner's, arguing that non-seminary ordinations risk producing poorly educated or fraudulent Rabbis.

According to the college's website, " Reform of American public education, to be successful and good, must be built on a foundation of classical liberal arts learning — the kind of learning best suited to a free society and most needed for its preservation.

According to Judith Plaskow, who has focused on feminism in Reform Judaism, the main issues for early Jewish feminists in these movements were the exclusion from the all-male prayer group or minyan, the exemption from positive time-bound mitzvot, and women's inability to function as witnesses and to initiate divorce.

In 1822, they moved to Charleston, South Carolina, where his father was among the founders, with Isaac Harby, of the first Reform congregation in the United States, the " Reformed Society of Israelites for Promoting True Principles of Judaism According to Its Purity and Spirit ".

According to the League of Women Voters, The Reform Party USA obtained more votes nationwide in 1998 than did any other third party in America ( without those garnered by Ventura ).

According to Barnett, liberty of contract is properly found in the Privileges or Immunities Clause, not in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment .. David Bernstein ’ s book, Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights Against Progressive Reform, argues that the decision in Lochner was well-grounded in the Supreme Court ’ s precedent.

According to a 2008 UN report, titled The Sunken Billions: The Economic Justification for Fisheries Reform, the world's fishing fleets incur a "$ US 50 billion annual economic loss " through depleted stocks and poor fisheries management.

According to a 2007 survey conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public life, of the 1. 7 % of the U. S. adult population who are affiliated with the Jewish religion, 43 % said they were Reform Jews, 31 % said they were Conservative Jews, and 10 % said they were Orthodox Jews.

According to some historians, Ross was inspired by the design of the Australian Federation Flag and incorporated the eight star cross which was a symbol of the Reform League.

According to the U. S. House Committee on Government Reform Minority Office, Fleishman-Hillard received the following amounts per year, for federal PR contracts:

According to the Drummond Report ( created by Chairman of the Commission of the Reform of Ontario's Public Services Don Drummond ), Casino Niagara could be closed sometime before the year 2025 if the recommendations from the report are accepted by the McGuinty government.

According to the official archives of Elections Alberta, in the 1989 Senate election, the Stan Waters campaign received $ 147, 822 in campaign donations, $ 19, 000 transferred from the Reform Party of Alberta, and $ 23, 558. 96 was from fundraising functions, for a total of $ 190, 380. 96 in campaign period revenue.

According to population studies of Montreal and Vancouver, 14 % and 22 % are Orthodox, 37 % and 30 % are Conservative and 19 % and 5 % are Reform.

According to a recent Asahi Shimbun article from September 2005, in four years since its initial adoption, the textbook is only being used in 0. 04 % of Japan's junior high schools, which is far from the 10 % penetration that the Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform had aimed for.

According to the Communists, the Law for Political Reform was anti-democratic, and, moreover, the elections for the Constituent Cortes should be called by a provisional government that formed part of the political forces of the opposition.

According to current statistics, the Progressive Reform Party is the second biggest political party of Suriname ( with Desi Bouterse's National Democratic Party being no.

According to a study by the Annenberg Institute for School Reform " small schools in Oakland are outperforming the large schools from which they emerged.

According to its Memorandum & Articles of Association, its objectives are :- “ To act as Nominee or agent or attorney either solely or jointly with others, for any person or persons, partnership, company, corporation, government, state, organisation, sovereign, province, authority, or public body, or any group or association of them ....” Bank of England Nominees Limited was granted an exemption by Edmund Dell, Secretary of State for Trade, from the disclosure requirements under Section 27 ( 9 ) of the Companies Act 1976, because, “ it was considered undesirable that the disclosure requirements should apply to certain categories of shareholders .” The Bank of England is also protected by its Royal Charter status, and the Official Secrets Act.

According to an article in The Guardian, Guest attended the House of Lords regularly until the House of Lords Act 1999 barred most hereditary peers from their seats.

According to Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on food, there was a rush by institutions to enter the food market following George W Bush's Commodities Futures Modernization Act of 2000.

According to the Julian calendar and Annunciation Style of enumerating years, then in use in the British Empire, Washington was born on February 11, 1731 ; when the Gregorian calendar was implemented in the British Empire in 1752, in accordance with the provisions of the Calendar ( New Style ) Act 1750, his birth date became February 22, 1732.

According to Lemley, it was only at this point that the term really began to be used in the United States ( which had not been a party to the Berne Convention ), and it did not enter popular usage until passage of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980.

According to statistics obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, the average commuter on the Metropolitan line in 2006 wasted three days, 10 hours and 25 minutes due to delays.

According to the Party Act ( article 46 ) adopted in 1980, " KPA is the revolutionary armed forces of the KWP.

According to the Slovenian Motorway Company Act valid since December 2010, the construction and building of highways in Slovenia is carried out and financed by private companies, primarily the Motorway Company in the Republic of Slovenia ( Slovene:, acronym DARS ), while the strategic planning and the acquisition of land for their course is carried out and financed by the Government of Slovenia.

According to the Helsinki Final Act of 1975, the UN, ICJ and international law experts, there is no contradiction between the principles of self-determination and territorial integrity, with the latter taking precedence.

According to its title, the Theft Act 1968 revises the law as to theft and similar or associated offences.

According to Schenck, the Espionage Act violated the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment.

According to one legal style manual, a sample citation would be " Privacy Act of 1974, ( 2006 )", read aloud as " Title five, United States Code, section five fifty-two A " or simply " five USC five fifty-two A.

According to the U. S. Department of Labor, the Vietnam Era Veterans ' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 ( VEVRAA ) states, " A Vietnam era veteran is a person who

According to Wright biographer Addison Gayle, just a few months later Wright answered questions at the American embassy in Paris about people he had met in the Communist Party who were at this point being prosecuted under the Smith Act.

According to the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, the president cannot appoint persons of the same political party to more than five of the nine CPB board seats.

According to historian Mark Stegmaier, " The Fugitive Slave Act, the abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia, the admission of California as a free state, and even the application of the formula of popular sovereignty to the territories were all less important than the least remembered component of the Compromise of 1850 -- the statute by which Texas relinquished its claims to much of New Mexico in return for federal assumption of the debts.

According to Hugh Nibley, much of the rain forest west of Portland, Oregon was acquired by the Oregon Lumber Company by illegal claims under the Act.

According to the Act, students may not be suspended or expelled for non-compliance with the dress code.

According to First Amendment scholar Floyd Abrams, the Act " was the first law barring unions and corporations from making independent expenditures in support of or opposition to federal candidates.

According to Peter Andreas, a border theorist, the creation of DHS constituted the most significant government reorganization since the Cold War, and the most substantial reorganization of federal agencies since the National Security Act of 1947, which placed the different military departments under a secretary of defense and created the National Security Council and Central Intelligence Agency.

According to the Army Act, army courts can try personnel for all kinds of offences except for murder and rape of a civilian, which are primarily tried by a civilian court of law.

According to a survey by Korn / Ferry International, Sarbanes – Oxley cost Fortune 500 companies an average of $ 5. 1 million in compliance expenses in 2004, while a study by the law firm of Foley and Lardner found the Act increased costs associated with being a publicly held company by 130 percent.

" According to the CBD, Kempthorne's regulations violated the Endagered Species Act, " did not go through the required public review process " and " were rushed by the Bush administration through an abbreviated process " with " environmental impacts were analyzed in a short and cursory environmental assessment, rather than a fuller environmental impact statement.

According to the Libel Act 1843, proving the truth of the accusation and a public interest in its exposure was a defence against a libel charge, and Wilde's lawyers concluded that the prostitutes ' testimony was likely to do that.