Rabbinical court
Woman receives Jewish divorce after three year struggle following financial pressure on husband
The couple had lived in Florida for over a decade, before separating in 2023. The husband refused to grant the woman, L., a get, demanding increasing financial compensation for it.
Shas-backed Zevadia Cohen elected Tel Aviv chief rabbi after High Court delays, political battle
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
Rabbinical court infringes on US civil jurisdiction in 8-year agunah case
The Rabbinical Court of Jerusalem has tried to broker a financial settlement between an estranged husband and wife to secure her a bill of divorce, despite legal proceedings in US civil courts.
Women’s groups question divorce statistics released by rabbinical courts
Issues surround sanctions against recalcitrant husbands.
Divorce rates continue slow rise, say Rabbinical Courts statistics
The statistics indicate a general trend of a small, but steady increase in divorce rates since 2012.
JPost Editorial: Crime and no punishment
The mother’s anguish was not only directed at religious hypocrisy.
In Israeli first, divorce refuser to face criminal prosecution
Husband in question has refused to give a divorce for 17 years and has sat in jail for most of that time.
Learn from Islam
Perhaps one day a woman will be appointed not just to an administrative position, but rather to serve as a full-fledged rabbinical judge.
Ministry to appoint woman to be deputy director of rabbinical courts
MAVOI SATUM director Batya Kahana-Dror (above) sees the appointment of a women as deputy director of the rabbinical courts as merely the first step.
JPost Editorial: Agunot in Zion
While we applaud the High Court’s decision, the “Aguna of Safed” case raises a number of questions regarding the place of Jewish law in a state that purports to be both Jewish and democratic.
Defeat for Chief Rabbi Yosef in High Court ruling on ‘Agunah from Safed’
In 2014, the Safed Rabbinical Court issued an innovative ruling in Jewish law issuing a bill of divorce to a woman whose husband was in a permanent vegetative state, on behalf of the husband.
AG backs ‘Agunah of Safed’ against Supreme Rabbinical Court
AG: allowing third party appeal "would have far reaching consequences of the utmost severity on all divorces issued by the rabbinical courts."