Here’s something I didn’t know about Israel, via Failed Messiah:
… Read the restDoes Israel really have religious freedom?
Many observers believe it does not, and the country’s secular High Court of Justice showed again last week that those observers are correct when it ruled that official state rabbinical courts can blacklist women – but not men – they believe have committed adultery, putting their names on secret lists that prevent them from marrying ‘pure’ Jews of unblemished linage and effectively preventing them from marrying at all.
In response to a petition filed against that blacklisting, Ha’aretz reported the High Court ruled that Israel’s haredi-controlled state chief rabbinate had sufficiently fixed the problems with the blacklist and, based on that it tossed
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