A rabbi from the Israeli town of Bnei Brak denounced as a hoax a newspaper report that a religious court there forced a man to divorce his wife because she was raped. The story drew protests from Israeli women’s groups after it was published last month by the Israeli daily Yediot Achronot. An editor at Yediot was quoted as saying he would check the rabbi’s charge.
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