98 A.D.2d 664 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1983
Order of the Supreme Court, Bronx County (Alfred J. Callahan, J.), entered on March 24, 1983, which granted the petition of the Kingsbridge Center of Israel to the extent of confirming in part the report of the Beth Din which establishes the term of the employment contract between the petitioner Kingsbridge Center of Israel and the respondent Samuel A. Turk to be for the lifetime of said respondent and determined that respondent had not breached the terms of said employment contract and denied the motion by respondent for an order transferring the controversy to a standing religious tribunal is unanimously modified, on the law, without costs, to the extent of confirming in full the award of the Beth Din and is otherwise affirmed. Anticipating his retirement as rabbi of the petitioner Kingsbridge Center of Israel, after approximately 40 years of services, the respondent on or about September 21, 1976, wrote to the president of petitioner indicating that he desired to be relieved of his existing duties as rabbi in approximately six years from date and requested that the congregation increase his pension fund contributions so