A ratings-boosting gimmick by Israeli television entertainer Dudu Topaz has Tiberias rabbis up in arms. Topaz moved in with the wife and two children of a Tiberias sanitation worker, while the husband was sent to Topaz’s villa. City rabbis say the gimmick violates family purity, but Topaz who often boasts of his womanizing abilities assured them the intent of the “partner swap” is to step into another man’s shoes, not his bed.
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