Lau later said that Kin's family had placed a $20,000 bond to ensure that he would produce the get for his wife in front of a
rabbinical court when one was arranged.
Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef regarded DNA evidence of parentage as inadmissible proof for a
rabbinical court. Also, Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv avoided accepting DNA evidence to reveal the identity of a mamzer, although he apparently believed that DNA evidence was admissible in the
rabbinical court (JACHTER 2006).
Rachel Levmore is a member of the State of Israel Committee for the Appointment of
Rabbinical Court Judges, a
Rabbinical Court advocate and director of the Agunot and GetRefusal Prevention Project of the International Young Israel Movement in Israel and the Jewish Agency.
in the
Rabbinical Court, but property issues can be solved in the Civil
1) The recent flurry of developments including repeated good news from abroad (Finland and Sweden each moving toward passing a law banning circumcision, Israel's High Court of Justice overturning the
rabbinical court's holding and protecting a son from forcible circumcision, progress at
In 1947, a year before Israel's founding, Yosef went to Cairo, where he headed its
rabbinical court and became Egypt's deputy chief rabbi.
(90) The approach taken by Ronnie Warburg makes it possible to file a tort action in a
rabbinical court or even in a secular civil court based on a construction of Jewish law whereby get refusal constitutes an emotional distress.
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RABBINICAL court in the orthodox Jewish quarter of Jerusalem last week ordered a dog to be stoned to death because the judge held it was possessed by the spirit of a secular lawyer who insulted the court 20 years before.
In the intervening years, the brothers took their dispute to a Jewish
rabbinical court known as a Beth Din in an effort to resolve their issues.
(244) Admittedly, a
rabbinical court that has erred is obligated to reexamine its decision and correct it, (245) and the litigant is entitled to return to the trial court after receiving its decision and attempt to convince it that a mistake has been made.
Nissim Zeev, a legislator from the conservative Sephardic political party Shas, said: "This is an example of something that should have been passed to a
rabbinical court.
"My wife turned me into a slave," the man said in a divorce request filed with a
rabbinical court, the Maariv daily reported on Friday.