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Rabbinical Court wages war against mother who wants to raise secular kids
By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10
Tags: divorce, ultra-Orthodox 
Haaretz.com/Channel 10 daily feature for August 3, 2008.

If the Rabbinical Court gets its way, Yael, a mother of two young boys, may go to jail in several weeks' time. Yael is not a criminal or a neglectful parent. Her only offense is that she is a secular Israeli who does not want to raise her children in an ultra-Orthodox setting.

Yael's former husband was also secular when they married. But he became increasingly religious after the birth of their children, and ultimately insisted that they be raised in an ultra-Orthodox household.

He enlisted the Rabbinical Court's help, and they have since ignored a family court ruling.
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