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London judge jails husband who withheld Jewish divorce from his wife

“You will be one of those chained women,” Alan Moher told his estranged wife, according to one report.

By Cnaan Liphshiz April 1, 2022 5:50 pm

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A Dutch judge, Hendrik Steenhuis, presides over a hearing at Schiphol Judicial Court (JCS) complex in Badhoevedorp, the Netherlands on March 9, 2020 (Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP via Getty Images)

In the Netherlands, judges can fine and lock up Jewish men who refuse to give their wives a religious divorce

Defying Western Europe’s tradition of church-state separation, the country is the only one outside of Israel with such a system.

August 19, 2020 12:32 pm

Israeli woman granted religious divorce after 14 years of trying

Vicky Tzur had been unable to remarry under Orthodox Jewish law 2006.

June 8, 2020 3:49 pm

Israel’s chief rabbi ordered delay of woman’s burial until her son gave his wife a Jewish divorce

By Marcy Oster August 20, 2019 3:31 pm

Jerusalem woman finally gets a Jewish divorce after her husband is fired from job and jailed

By Marcy Oster April 3, 2019 3:42 pm

Vast majority of Modern Orthodox rabbis require a prenuptial agreement for marrying couples

By Marcy Oster March 20, 2019 12:04 pm

Supreme Court ends Israeli woman’s marriage to comatose husband after decade-long divorce

March 31, 2017 11:37 am

Haredi man whose son is withholding Jewish divorce avoids jail

January 17, 2017 4:12 pm

Israeli rabbinical court shames, excommunicates man who won’t divorce wife

February 19, 2016 12:57 pm

Adina Porat freed from ‘chained’ marriage after 8-year struggle

By Marshall Weiss January 11, 2016 3:58 pm

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