A closely divided panel of the Appellate Division, First Department, is allowing a student injured while taking a “gap year” in Israel to sue the trip organizer, a New York synagogue, for failing to have its chaperones take her to physical therapy.
The panel ruled, 3-2, that the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism had a duty of care to Julie Katz, and issues of fact existed as to whether breach of its duty led to a worsening of a knee injury, precluding summary judgment.
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