Unprecedented: Father Jailed For Son Refusing To Divorce Wife
For the first time in history, an Israeli rabbinical court has sentenced a man to prison because his son will not grant his wife a divorce.
Ultra-Orthodox: Kohanim Flying Out of Israel Must Fly Through Haifa
Ultra-Orthodox members of the kohen priestly class will need to find other ways to fly out of Israel that Ben Gurion Airport for the first two weeks of November, according to the Chief Lithuanian Religious Courts.
Tel Aviv Beis Din Turns To AG Mandelblit To Probe Possible Criminal Actions In Agunah Case
The Rabbinical Courts Administration has been instructed by the Tel Aviv Rabbinical Court to discuss opening a criminal investigation with the attorney general into the father of a man who is refusing to grant his wife a divorce.
Supreme Rabbinical Court Declines To Recognize Rabbi Lookstein’s Conversions
In a hugely controversial step, the Supreme Rabbinical Court asked a female convert of prominent US Jewish leader Rabbi Haskel Lookstein to declare her acceptance of the religious commandments in court so as to avoid doubt as to her Jewishness.
Recalcitrant Husband Takes Rabbis To Court Over Shaming
A Supreme Court panel of seven justices will hear petitions by Oded Gez and Sharon Ben-Chaim – husbands who refuse to give their wives divorces against the social sanctions levied against them by the Rabbinical Court. The hearing will take place tomorrow (Tuesday).
Rabbis Deny Battered Woman’s Divorce Plea: Husband Only Hit Her Because She Wanted To Leave
Rabbinical judges in Jerusalem last week rejected a motion for divorce filed by a battered woman, saying that her husband had only resorted to violence because she wanted to divorce him.
Rabbis Allow Non-Jews To Collect The Deceased on Shabbat
Chief Rabbinate, burial society, National Insurance Institute and Religious Services Ministry agree to let non-Jews collect the bodies of those who die on the weekend, saving grieving families from being fleeced by private ambulance companies.
Rabbinical Court Refuses To Grant Couple A ‘Get’ Until Prenup Voided
A Jerusalem rabbinical court is making the already complicated divorce process even more inconvenient for couples who sign prenuptial agreements, according to the Hebrew website Srugim.
Rabbinical Court Infringes on US Civil Jurisdiction In 8-Year Agunah Case
The Rabbinical Court of Jerusalem has reversed itself not once but twice over issues of jurisdiction regarding the case of an eight-year agunah, and is now enabling her estranged husband to condition his granting of a divorce on the division of assets from the marriage.
Rabbinical Court Awards Custody To Suspected Abuser Because Mother Lives With A Non-Jew
A rabbinical court in Jerusalem has awarded permanent custody to a father whose two children had been removed from his home by the welfare services because the mother of the children, who lives in the United States, “lives with a non-Jew and isn’t interested in the Jewish religion.”