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Shas MK Michael Malchieli reacts during a meeting of the Arrangements Committee at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on June 9, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
July 17, 2023, 7:33 pm
Bill seeks to strengthen rabbinical courts’ jurisdiction over child support
Opposition lawmakers say draft amendment compromises women’s position and is part of a slide toward theocracy
By Canaan Lidor
Illustrative: A Jewish couple getting married. (Justin Oberman/Creative Commons)
April 1, 2022, 10:00 pm
In first, Britain jails businessman for refusing to grant his wife a Jewish divorce
‘You sought to manipulate and control her all in the knowledge that it would substantially impact her mental health,’ judge tells Alan Moher, who will serve 18 months in prison
By ToI Staff
In a Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015 file photo, Rabbi Mendel Epstein, right, arrives for his trial at federal court in Trenton, New Jersey (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
September 20, 2020, 8:17 am
New film to tell story of rabbi who tortured men to force divorces
Novelist and journalist Taffy Brodesser-Akner will write screenplay for upcoming film about Mendel Epstein, who kidnapped, beat and tormented husbands unwilling to grant ‘get’
By JTA
A Dutch judge, Hendrik Steenhuis (L), presides over a hearing at the Schiphol Judicial Court complex in Badhoevedorp, March 9, 2020. (Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP via Getty Images/via JTA)
August 25, 2020, 10:47 pm
Dutch judges can sanction Jewish men who refuse to give wives religious divorce
Netherlands judiciary is the only one in the world outside of Israel that punishes husbands who refuse to give their wives a writ of divorce or ‘get’ — with fines and even jail
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative photo of a wedding. (Shutterstock via JTA)
August 26, 2019, 5:32 am
British court orders businessman to pay wife alimony until he gives her a ‘get’
Alan Moher of Manchester loses appeal against decision that ordered him to pay $1.7 million in a lump sum by completion of their civil divorce, plus additional yearly payments
By Marcy Oster
Illustrative: A Jewish couple stand underneath the 'chuppah' during their wedding in a synagogue in Paris, France, July 21, 2013. (Serge Attal/Flash90/via JTA)
March 16, 2018, 1:25 pm
New Israeli bill would punish Jewish foreigners with ‘chained’ wives
Move comes at behest of European rabbis looking to punish husbands who refuse to grant divorces; ‘Today among Jews in Europe, everyone has relatives in Israel’
By JTA
Illustrative: A man stands outside the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 31, 2017, 10:21 pm
Supreme Court ends Israeli woman’s marriage to comatose husband
Rabbinical judges, who had sought to intervene, blocked from prolonging decade-old case
By JTA
Police outside the Ma'asiyahu Prison in Ramla, which has a special Torah study jail program, on February 15, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
March 22, 2017, 7:49 pm
Jailed divorce-refusers stand to lose religious benefits
New law allows rabbinical courts to sanction inmates, barring them from religious studies program and forcing them to wear regular uniforms
By Marissa Newman
Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll
January 10, 2017, 1:37 pm
Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll
The Chief Rabbi tries to undo a divorce
Protesting the notion that one rabbinic court can revoke a get issued by another: Is no divorcee’s second marriage safe?
Illustrative: Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef meets with newly appointed Supreme Rabbinical Court judges in Jerusalem, July 13, 2016. (Photo by Yaacov Cohen/Flash90)
November 18, 2016, 12:49 am
Entire rabbinical court to rule on comatose husband divorce case
In historic first, complete bench of Supreme Rabbinical Court will decide whether lower court was right to grant ‘get’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative wedding photo. (JTA)
September 24, 2016, 3:32 am
Orthodox rabbis’ group mandates prenup to prevent ‘chained’ wives
Rabbinical Council of America will require couples to sign agreement ensuring husbands will not withhold a ‘get’ from their spouses
By Ben Sales
Keshet Starr
September 2, 2016, 3:05 pm
Keshet Starr
Isn’t get refusal his only recourse?
Myths & facts about Jewish divorce, including why withholding the divorce is not a legitimate negotiating tool
An illustrative photo of a bride and groom taking portraits prior to their wedding, in Tel Aviv, November 4, 2015. (Flash90)
August 17, 2016, 6:11 pm
Jerusalem rabbis: Limit grooms’ alimony vow to 1 million shekels
Rabbincal court’s quest to cap prenuptial pledges comes as another group tries to make it easier for women to get divorces
By JTA and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Demonstrators from the Agunot organization protest outside the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem in 2011. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
June 9, 2016, 3:58 pm
Jewish men refusing divorce will soon lose places to hide
A new Israeli-European database is set to list husbands who won’t allow their wives to leave them
By ToI Staff
Oded Guez. (Courtesy)
April 21, 2016, 3:45 pm
Rabbinical court: Help us find man who won’t divorce wife
Oded Guez, excommunicated by the rabbis, had failed to show up for a hearing about ending his marriage
By ToI Staff and JTA
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