Showing posts with label Rabbinical Courts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rabbinical Courts. Show all posts
Saturday, March 30, 2024

Husband's Defamation Action Against Organization Assisting His Wife in Obtaining a Get Is Dismissed

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 In Satz v. Organization for the Resolution of Agunot, Inc. ,  (SD NY, March 28, 2024), a New York federal district court dismissed a husban...
Saturday, March 23, 2024

Court Enforces Arbitration Award Requiring Husband to Furnish Jewish Bill of Divorce

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In S.I. v. M.I. ,  (NJ App., March 22, 2024), a New Jersey state appellate court held that a husband was required to comply with an arbitrat...
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Former Editor of Yiddish Children's Magazine Sues Rabbinical Courts and Others Under RICO and Sherman Act

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Suit was filed last month in a New York federal bankruptcy court against several rabbinical courts, rabbis, and other defendants charging Sh...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Israel Expands Rabbinical Court Divorce Jurisdiction To Cover Recalcitrant Non-Israeli Husbands

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On Monday, Israel's Knesset passed a new law giving Israeli Rabbinical Courts jurisdiction over divorces outside of Israel between non-I...
Monday, March 19, 2018

Proposed Knesset Bill Would Extend Israeli Rabbinical Court Jurisdiction Extraterritorially

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JTA reports on an interesting family law bill that passed the first of three readings in Israel's Knesset earlier this month.  Jewish r...
Thursday, August 17, 2017

Israel's High Court Says Women Must Be Allowed To Serve As Rabbinical Court Administrators

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Times of Israel reports that Israel's High Court of Justice ruled yesterday that women must be allowed to serve in administrative posit...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

Israel's Rabbinical Courts Grapple With Unrealistic Marriage Contract Terms

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In Israel, an interesting contract question is being increasingly faced by state rabbinical courts that have jurisdiction over divorce actio...
Monday, July 06, 2015

Israel's Cabinet Strengthens Ultra-Orthodox Control of Religious Status Matters

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Times of Israel reports that Israel's Cabinet on Sunday took two steps that place personal status matters of Israeli Jews more firmly un...
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Israeli State Rabbinical Court Fines Mother For Refusing To Have Son Circumcised

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Haaretz and   Failed Messiah report that in Israel, the Supreme Rabbinical Court on Sunday denied an appeal from an Oct. 29 decision of th...