The London Beth Din has taken the unprecedented step of calling for a man to be banned from synagogues and publicly shunned because he has refused to grant his wife a religious divorce.
Tzfat (Safed) Chief Rabbi and Chief Rabbinate member Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu issued a landmark religious ruling Friday, declaring that terrorists captured by civilian bystanders must not be kept alive – and that Israel Police officers who do keep terrorists alive must be prosecuted under law.
While there are many examples of husbands who refuse to grant their wives a Jewish divorce – making those women agunot, or “chained women” who are not allowed to remarry, the opposite can also occur and on Thursday, the High Court said that sanctions placed on a woman who refused to accept a divorce from…
The Zomet Institute of Halacha and Technology, which specializes in adapting modern devices foruse within the scope of Jewish law, has developed a “kosher” walkie talkie – one that can be used on Shabbat, when Jews are generally forbidden to use electronic equipment.
At least two Israeli Orthodox rabbis have begun performing wedding ceremonies for Israeli Jews outside the official framework of Israel’s Chief Rabbinate, knowingly breaking the law, in an expression of opposition to the intertwining of religion and state and in protest at the rabbinate’s coercive and conservative approach.
The Jerusalem Rabbinate was forced this week to announce the nullification of a marriage it had performed, when it became clear that the groom was actually a transgender man, thus making the marriage invalid according to Jewish law.
A resident of Haifa who refused to divorce her husband for 14 years will do no jail time and receive 100,000 shekels from her husband in return for granting the divorce, a rabbinical court has ruled.
Madness,” declared the Facebook post written by Jewish women’s activist, rabbinic pleader and writer Rivkah Lubitch on a Hebrew-language Facebook group devoted to the treatment of women in religious Jewish law.
A Family Court judge had some harsh words for a yeshiva student who claimed he couldn’t afford to pay alimony and child support: Go out and get a job.
Raya Dinenberg’s husband disappeared in 1987 and could not be found; She was defined as an ‘agunah’ by the rabbinical court and could not remarry.