Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit has ordered a criminal investigation against the parents of a man hiding abroad and denying his wife a divorce on suspicion they are abetting a crime by helping their son violate a ruling of an Israeli rabbinical court.
The Ministerial Legislative Committee – that which determines whether the government will support or reject new legislation has approved a bill designed to help “chained” women: If the recalcitrant husband is jailed for not giving a get (religious divorce), he will be prohibited from being served kosher l’mehadrin food, he will not be incarcerated in…
Hoping to assist women who have been refused a divorce, Orthodox rabbis in Israel and Europe have announced plans to set up a joint database that will contain the names and photographs of their recalcitrant husbands.
It may yet become a TV movie, involving detectives, hideouts, false disguises, a dramatic arrest, and then the happy ending. So far, however, it is merely a true story that ended this morning – providing relief for a woman who was held “anchored” for ten years.
TRENTON — A federal judge has denied a bid by two rabbis convicted of kidnapping-related charges to stay out of prison while they appeal their convictions.
This is the shocking moment an Orthodox Jewish rabbi known as the ‘Prodfather’ was caught on camera offering to torture husbands into divorcing their wives as part of an FBI sting.
Meir “bugeyed” Kin, nicknamed “the mamzer” by Gedolei Yisrael refuses to give his wife Lonna a get, while he went on to marry a Brazillian Skank ….
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.
Chief Rabbi David Lau has reiterated a much-praised stance he took in a recent divorce case which came before the Supreme Rabbinical Court, asserting that it is legitimate for rabbinical judges to require a divorce be given before an agreement on the division of a couple’s assets is reached.
TRENTON — A Lakewood couple involved in a bizarre kidnapping of an Orthodox Jewish man were sentenced on Tuesday for their roles in forcing the man to agree to give his wife a religious divorce.