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#UPDATE Remember the petition we submitted to the Supreme Court a few weeks ago? The one about the 3-generation family from the FSU whose Jewishness was revoked after 30 years, when one of the Israeli-born daughters was in the process of divorce?
It gets curiouser.
A thread: 1/
It gets curiouser.
A thread: 1/
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To jog your memory, read this thread about the background of the case: https://twitter.com/cwjisrael/status/1293562170429538304?s=20">https://twitter.com/cwjisrael...
To jog your memory, read this thread about the background of the case: https://twitter.com/cwjisrael/status/1293562170429538304?s=20">https://twitter.com/cwjisrael...
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After the rabbinic court revoked the family’s Jewish identity, they declared all of the women’s marriages void. This would mean that the divorcing woman would now be considered single and would be free to move on with her life, right? Wrong.
After the rabbinic court revoked the family’s Jewish identity, they declared all of the women’s marriages void. This would mean that the divorcing woman would now be considered single and would be free to move on with her life, right? Wrong.
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Just in case there was “an extremely distant and negligible chance,” in their words, that the woman was indeed Jewish, the rabbinic court made the couple undergo a get ceremony. But there was a catch: The rabbinic court refused to issue her a legal divorce.
Just in case there was “an extremely distant and negligible chance,” in their words, that the woman was indeed Jewish, the rabbinic court made the couple undergo a get ceremony. But there was a catch: The rabbinic court refused to issue her a legal divorce.
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Recall that there is no civil divorce in Israel, and the only way to legally end a marriage is via a divorce certificate issued by the state rabbinic court.
Recall that there is no civil divorce in Israel, and the only way to legally end a marriage is via a divorce certificate issued by the state rabbinic court.
