Rabbinical court
Shas-backed Zevadia Cohen elected Tel Aviv chief rabbi after High Court delays, political battle
The position has been vacant for nearly nine years, since former chief rabbi Israel Meir Lau left office in 2017, but the race is not only about filling an empty seat.
Petition to High Court seeks to strike down new rabbinical courts arbitration law
Law widening religious courts’ role in civil disputes sparks debate over choice, rights - analysis
Knesset passes law expanding powers of Israel’s rabbinic courts to arbitrate civil matters
Rabbinical court retroactively invalidates decade-old conversion
According to the rabbinical court ruling, the woman met her partner during her military service while she was still studying for conversion in the IDF’s conversion program.
Rabbinic ruling: Families of Ethiopian Airlines victims can sit shiva
Widows of the two Israelis killed in the the crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 must wait “several months” for identification of body parts to be released from their agunot status.
Rabbinical court tells Egged to fire worker for refusing to grant divorce
The couple in question, whose names cannot be disclosed, immigrated to Israel from India several years ago with their only child.
Prevention of the classic ‘aguna’
The problem of a spouse, whether the husband or the wife, refusing to sever the bonds of marriage in accordance with Jewish law even at the marriage’s end, is unfortunately all too common.
Man permitted to marry second wife after first wife absconds with child
The husband opened divorce proceedings with the Tel Aviv Rabbinical Court but the woman did not respond to the divorce suit.
Woman fined by Rabbinical Court for seeking police assistance
Ex-husband allegedly owes NIS 100,000 in child support payments and harassed his former wife and her partner.
Freedom is not with the Rabbinical Court
Freedom is not with the Rabbinical Court – but in the hands of the husband and his father.
17-year prisoner for divorce refusal could be released from incarceration
Tzviya Gorodetsky’s request that the rabbinical courts close her divorce case with Meir Gorodestky was granted by the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court on Tuesday.
Rabbinical Court refuses to accept ruling freeing 20-year Agunah
An independent court ruled to annul the marriage, but the rabbinical court has instead opened proceedings against the imprisoned husband.
Father of divorce refuser fined 5,000 shekels a day
The Tel Aviv rabbinical court ruled nearly five years ago that the man was obligated to grant a divorce, but he ignored the ruling.
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