{"id":178979,"date":"2018-06-27T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/27\/about-fing-time-23\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T00:04:00","slug":"about-fing-time-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/27\/about-fing-time-23\/","title":{"rendered":"About F%$#ing Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Knesset has passed a law that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theyeshivaworld.com\/news\/israel-news\/1546560\/new-law-husbands-who-refuse-to-give-a-get-can-no-longer-enter-israel.html\">bans men who refuse to give their wives a get from entering Israel<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Knesset has passed a new law which closes Israel\u2019s doors to husbands who make their wives an agunah, refusing to give her a bill of divorce. The Conference of European Rabbis was behind the initiative, which has now been passed into law, barring recalcitrant husbands from seeking refuge in Israel. <\/p>\n<p>If a beis din in The Diaspora has labels a man a recalcitrant husband, not only will be barred from entering the country, but he will be detained by authorities at the airport as a deterrence towards compelling him to release his wife from an unwanted marriage.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is a peculiarity in Jewish law that a divorce has to be executed by the man, by giving a <i>get<\/i>, and if there is a civil divorce, the man is free to remarry and his children would not be a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mamzer\">mamzer<\/a>, which creates major complications for the child, while the wife&#8217;s children would be.<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>As such, in many divorces, the man, either as a tactic, or just because they are an asshole, will refuse to give a <i>get<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>This problem is considered serious enough that Maimonides issued a ruling that it was acceptable to beat the husband to convince him to give the wife a <i>get<\/i>, so the move by the Israeli parliament is the least that they could have done.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually more complicated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Knesset has passed a law that bans men who refuse to give their wives a get from entering Israel: The Knesset has passed a new law which closes Israel\u2019s doors to husbands who make their wives an agunah, refusing to give her a bill of divorce. The Conference of European Rabbis was behind the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[488,449,380],"class_list":["post-178979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-israel","tag-legislation","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}