27.10.2013 - 14:12 [ nj.com ]

Former Israeli Supreme Court president gives civics lesson at New Milford school

Honorable Justice Dorit Beinisch, retired earlier this year after 17 years on the court, seven as president. More than a dozen students stood to ask questions — first in Hebrew, then in English — on her most memorable cases, her experience as a woman in the courts, and the differences between the Israeli and U.S. justice systems. (..)

„Your roots are in the Constitution,“ she said. „While we don‘t have a Constitution….we do have to find a solution in the same way, in the legislation that we have.“