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Agunot – A Sharp Indictment of Israel’s Rabbinic Courts

31/03/2022 21:46

“This should have been the mission of the halakhic decisors: to make sure no woman finds herself for even one day or one night without a divorce!”

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75% support introduction of civil divorce in Israel

22/03/2016 14:04

Head of Hiddush Rabbi Uri Regev, esq.: "The no-confidence vote against the Orthodox establishment's monopoly is tremendous." Director of the Center for Women's Justice Dr. Susan Weiss, esq.: "The solution to the agunah crisis - civil marriage and divorce." CEO of Mavoi Satum Batya Kahana-Dror, Esq.: "Alienation from Israel's religious institutions is growing."

71% of Israeli Jews: Rabbinate's monopoly distances Jews from Judaism

14/02/2016 16:54

Not only is the denial of the freedom to marry antithetical to core democratic principles, but it also undermines Jewish interests. 71% of the Israeli Jewish public maintain that the Chief Rabbinate's and the rabbinical courts' monopoly over marriage and divorce distances Jews from Judaism.

Supreme Court hears Hiddush petition against coercive rabbinical court

26/07/2015 15:50

Justice Mazuz: “The ‘Writs of Refusal’ are intended to deny a person his rights as a man and a citizen by blocking his/her way to State institutions (i.e. - the courts) that can render him remedy in realizing his rights.”

Israel's High Court Unanimously Agrees with Hiddush

14/11/2014 13:47

November 12 marked a major, promising step in our battles that will surely become a landmark legal case on the road to ensuring Israel’s identity as a Jewish and democratic state. Privately issued "writs of refusal" excommunicating those who turn to Israel's legal system for justice are illegal - the private rabbinical courts continue acting illegally in defiance of the law.

Israel's circumcision controversy: an opportunity for change

Uri Regev 26/12/2013 11:53

Until Israel's Supreme Court intervened, an Israeli mother was fined $150 by Israel's Supreme Rabbinical Court of Appeals for every day she did not circumcise her son. The case is not over yet and serves as a key indicator of the growing influence of Israel's rabbinical courts.

Unfolding circumcision controversy makes the case for civil marriage and divorce in Israel

19/12/2013 15:54

In light of the recent developments in Israel's circumcision controversy, Hiddush CEO Rabbi Uri Regev points out that this dispute could be easily handled outside of the rabbinical courts if civil marriage and divorce were allowed for Israelis.

Hiddush blasts rabbinic ruling against iPhones

05/08/2013 12:41

Bnei Brak rabbinical court head: It’s no mitzva to return "non-kosher" smartphones that people have left behind. Hiddush CEO responds: It's no mitzva to reject the rule of law.

Hiddush petitions to the Supreme Court against rabbinical courts' excommunication practices

20/05/2013 22:01

In a landmark case, Hiddush petitioned to the Israeli Supreme Court on behalf of an ultra-Orthodox resident of Elad to annul the writ of refusal issued by a rabbinical court for filing a case in Israel's civil courts.

Hiddush appeal brings prosecution against rabbinic courts who threaten excommunication

07/03/2013 16:31

In response to an appeal filed by Hiddush- Freedom of Religion for Israel, Yehuda Weinstein, Israel's Attorney General directed the Ministry of Religious Services to take legal action against private rabbinic authorities that attempt to excommunicate individuals who file cases in State civil courts.

Hiddush outraged by possibility of all-male committee for Rabbinic appointment

23/11/2011 13:10

Suggested appointments for the Committee for Rabbinical Judges would leave the committee without female members, exacerbating and intensifying the already gender-discriminatory rabbinic court system