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Illustrative: A man stands outside the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 27, 2018, 5:32 pm
Rabbinic court awards custody to father suspected of sexually abusing his kids
Attorney for mother says judges gave no reason for ruling, which Rabbinical Courts Administration says was made ‘in accordance with the well-being of the children’
By TOI staff
Illustrative wedding photo. (JTA)
October 3, 2018, 4:36 pm
In rare move, rabbinical court sanctions woman for refusing divorce
Haifa teacher placed on leave by Education Ministry, barred from leaving country, has driver’s license suspended; court threatens to release her name, have her jailed
By Marissa Newman
View from the halls of the Rabbinical Court's Division for Agunot (literally, chained women), Jerusalem, September 17, 2017 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
August 6, 2018, 4:00 am
For first time, Israeli rabbinic court appoints woman to senior position
The naming of Shira Ben-Eli as a judicial assistant comes nearly two years after a lawsuit calling for equality in Jewish religious courts, particularly for non-rabbinic positions
By JTA
Illustrative: A Jewish couple getting married. (Justin Oberman/Creative Commons)
June 25, 2018, 9:49 pm
Non-Israeli ‘chained’ women can now pursue divorce in Israel
Knesset passes 3-year law giving rabbinical courts international jurisdiction and sanction power over Jewish divorce-refusers, under certain conditions
By Marissa Newman
Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau (center) and Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef (right) attend a meeting of the Rabbinate Council in Jerusalem in November 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 30, 2018, 5:52 pm
Diaspora rabbinical judges could have to take exams to get Chief Rabbinate’s OK
State-run religious authority releases proposed guidelines for recognition of Orthodox rabbinical courts abroad; activists slam ‘unprecedented power grab’
By Marissa Newman
Venice's chief rabbi, Scialom Bahbout (YouTube screenshot)
May 28, 2018, 10:04 pm
Venice’s chief rabbi takes row with Israeli Rabbinate to Knesset
Scialom Bahbout protests Chief Rabbinate’s refusal to recognize his conversions, says argument ‘nearby’ rabbinical courts in Rome, Milan are sufficient doesn’t hold water
By Marissa Newman
Illustrative: A Jewish couple getting married. (Justin Oberman/Creative Commons)
May 10, 2018, 6:10 am
To ‘unchain’ Jewish women, rabbinate could extend reach across borders
Amid heavy criticism, Knesset debates bill to grant Israel’s rabbinical courts oversight of Jewish divorce cases, including for those wed in civil unions
By Marissa Newman
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
Yesh Atid MK Aliza Lavie at the Knesset, February 13, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 5, 2018, 11:44 pm
Bill allowing aid to non-citizen ‘chained’ women passes first reading
Legislation would enable rabbinical courts to sanction non-Israeli Jewish men who refuse to grant their wives a divorce
By TOI staff
Jeffrey Saks
November 15, 2017, 2:41 pm
Jeffrey Saks
Divorce: Achilles’ heel of Jewish law
Why my town of Efrat is actively protesting a local get-refuser
Workers hang a poster of outgoing Prime Minister Saad Hariri with Arabic words that read, "We are all Saad," on a seaside street in Beirut, Lebanon, November 9, 2017. (AP/ Hussein Malla)
November 9, 2017, 2:54 pm
Lebanon PM’s party calls for his return from Saudi Arabia
Saad Hariri’s return ‘is necessary to restore dignity and respect to Lebanon,’ his Future party says
By TOI staff
Rachel Levmore
November 7, 2017, 9:34 am
Rachel Levmore
A get-refuser in our midst
Ordinary people may not want to treat anyone poorly, but in this case, that’s exactly the right thing to do
Illustrative: Demonstrators from the Agunot organization protest outside the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem in 2011. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
October 24, 2017, 2:24 pm
MKs seek to let Israeli courts sanction non-citizen recalcitrant husbands
‘Israel can give an answer to agunot where no one else can,’ says Aliza Lavie of proposal that seeks to alleviate the plight of women who can’t get a divorce
By TOI staff
From the WebOctober 22, 2017, 3:46 pm
Bringing back the Judaism I love
My religion has been hijacked by extremists and the effects are devastating
By Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll
Rabbinical Courts Administration Director Shimon Yaakovi speaking during an interview in his office in Jerusalem, July 27, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/via JTA)
September 17, 2017, 1:09 pm
Rabbinate expanding marriage blacklists for ‘questionable’ Jewish immigrants
Report says Israel is methodically blacklisting olim of Jewish heritage, who are subsequently unable to marry in the Jewish state
By Andrew Tobin
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