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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.

By Cnaan Liphshiz August 19, 2020 12:32 pm

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This document recorded Holocaust atrocities — and allowed survivors to remarry

The ledger was compiled as proof that survivors’ spouses were dead, allowing them the chance to remarry under Jewish law.

November 28, 2019 3:15 pm

Wives of Israeli men killed in Ethiopian Airlines crash could be in limbo

A special rabbinical court must prove conclusively that the men got on the plane and died in the March 10 crash near Addis Ababa.

March 28, 2019 3:12 pm

New Israeli bill seeks punishment for Jewish foreigners with ‘chained’ wives

March 16, 2018 3:01 am

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

March 31, 2017 11:37 am

Jerusalem rabbinical court dismisses husband’s violence as grounds for divorce

February 10, 2017 6:50 am

Orthodox rabbis’ group mandates prenup to prevent ‘chained’ wives

By Ben Sales September 23, 2016 5:48 pm

How Israeli women are gaining in the fight for Jewish divorce

By Andrew Tobin August 22, 2016 11:20 am

Jerusalem rabbinical court seeks to end alimony ‘inflation’ in ketubah

August 17, 2016 6:47 am

Haredi father who blocked son’s Jewish divorce must serve prison sentence in Israel

August 12, 2016 10:33 am

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