International Media Corner
Israel Wire
May 30, 2000
High Court Becomes Involved in Rabbinical Court Case of Accused Bigamy
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The High Court of Justice on Wednesday (May 26)ordered the rabbinical courts to show cause as to why a man would be permitted to take a second wife prior to issuing a divorce (Get) to his current wife. A couple that was married in New York about twenty years ago, where they were living, recently arrived in Israel independent from one another, as they no longer live as a married couple. The High Rabbinical and Tel-Aviv Rabbinical Courts issued a permit to the husband to take a wife based on the permit he presented from the New York Rabbinical Court. The first wife contended that the courts in Israel never asked her to present her side of the story and the decision was made here, as well as in New York, in her absence. The permit was granted, in accordance with Jewish law, when the husband told the rabbinical courts that he was unaware of his wife's address. The wife insists that at the time the court in Israel issued the permit, based on the erroneous information, her husband had already taken his second wife. |
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