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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
The town of Efrat protests a get-refusal with posters and bumper stickers (Courtesy, Jeffrey Saks)
November 15, 2017, 2:41 pm
Divorce: Achilles’ heel of Jewish law
Why my town of Efrat is actively protesting a local get-refuser
By Jeffrey Saks
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
Illustrative: Books of the Talmud. (iStock)
November 7, 2017, 9:34 am
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
By Rachel Levmore
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
Illustrative wedding photo. (JTA)
August 31, 2017, 10:38 pm
Messianic Israeli couple cannot marry in Jewish ceremony, rabbinical court rules
Couple say they believe in Jesus as the Messiah and that they work to spread the Gospel
By JTA
The entrance to the Rabbinical Court of Tel Aviv, November 27, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 16, 2017, 5:53 pm
High Court rules women must be allowed to administer rabbinical courts
Women's rights groups hail ruling as judges nix job requirements that effectively precluded females
By TOI staff
May 30, 2017, 9:18 am
The brave convert
She's not sure she’d join the Jewish people if she faced the (sometimes concocted) hurdles that converts do
By Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll
In May 2017, Zvia Gordetsky launched a hunger strike outside the Knesset after being refused a religious bill of divorce for 17 years (Courtesy)
May 15, 2017, 3:23 pm
With bill shelved, woman denied divorce for 17 years ends hunger strike
Rotation of activists will keep fasting for Zvia Gordetsky, 53, whose husband refused her a divorce again on Monday; rabbinical courts say 'no solution' to her plight
By Marissa Newman
Illustrative: A man stands outside the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 13, 2017, 12:48 pm
New bill would grant rabbinic courts jurisdiction over civil cases
Preliminary draft of legislation to allow religious judges to impose foreclosures, confiscate property and issue travel bans
By Tamar Pileggi
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
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