The Rabbinical Council of America today announced the creation of a Beth Din (rabbinical court) to give guidance in the field of marriage and family status to all Jews who require it, regardless of synagogue affiliation.
The Beth Din, will deal with marriage, divorce and family counseling problems in accordance with the tenets of Orthodox Judaism. Referrals to the court will be made by local community rabbis of those problems beyond the power and resources of the local spiritual leaders.
A principal feature of the Beth Din will be the establishment of a central registry of vital statistics, where a roster of Jewish marriages and divorces will be recorded, maintained and made available to the rabbinate in every part of the world. Rabbi Emanuel Rackman president of the RCA, said today that the registry “will be extremely useful in centralizing basic sources of information in the vital areas of marriage, divorce and custody.”
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