Rabbinical court

Rabbinical court chaos leaves Israelis trapped in a broken system - opinion

System failures, from missing files to postponed hearings, in Israel’s rabbinical courts are delaying justice and trapping families in legal limbo.

THE CHIEF RABBINATE’S Supreme Court for Appeals in Jerusalem: Israelis deserve a religious court system that honors both Halacha and human dignity, the writer asserts.
Red shoes are displayed to mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, in Tel Aviv on Tuesday. Be brave – in the small, everyday ways, the writer urges.

Ending violence against women starts with refusing to look away - opinion

US President Donald Trump addressing the Knesset in Israel, following the release of the last 20 living hostages from Gaza, October 13, 2025.

Knesset advances bill expanding rabbinical courts’ power over civil matters

PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG and Sephardi Chief Rabbi David Yosef attend a ceremony inaugurating new judges in the rabbinical courts at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem in June.

The rabbinical courts: Sick system at the heart of society - opinion


Divorce sous pression

Jusqu’où peut-on aller pour convaincre un mari récalcitrant de donner le guett ?

Le tribunal rabbinique de Tel-Aviv

Rabbinical court calls for investigation of father of man dodging divorce

A haredi husband has been reluctant to grant his wife a divorce, and the courts believe his father is financially supporting his recalcitrance.

File photo: Divorce.

Rabbinical court infringes on US civil jurisdiction in 8-year agunah case

The Rabbinical Court of Jerusalem has tried to broker a financial settlement between an estranged husband and wife to secure her a bill of divorce, despite legal proceedings in US civil courts.

File photo: Divorce.

Women’s groups question divorce statistics released by rabbinical courts

Issues surround sanctions against recalcitrant husbands.

The Rabbinical Court of Tel Aviv

Divorce rates continue slow rise, say Rabbinical Courts statistics

The statistics indicate a general trend of a small, but steady increase in divorce rates since 2012.

Wedding

JPost Editorial: Crime and no punishment

The mother’s anguish was not only directed at religious hypocrisy.

Moti Elon

In Israeli first, divorce refuser to face criminal prosecution

Husband in question has refused to give a divorce for 17 years and has sat in jail for most of that time.

Tzviya Gordetski.

Learn from Islam

Perhaps one day a woman will be appointed not just to an administrative position, but rather to serve as a full-fledged rabbinical judge.

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks next to Palestinian women in Jerusalem's Old City

Ministry to appoint woman to be deputy director of rabbinical courts

MAVOI SATUM director Batya Kahana-Dror (above) sees the appointment of a women as deputy director of the rabbinical courts as merely the first step.

Batya Kahana-Dror

JPost Editorial: Agunot in Zion

While we applaud the High Court’s decision, the “Aguna of Safed” case raises a number of questions regarding the place of Jewish law in a state that purports to be both Jewish and democratic.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the High Court on the gas deal