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In Israel, a rabbinical judge can force couples into divorce if the wife dresses indecently

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Since donning the burka, the woman said she had been taunted by neighbours who called her a “smelly Arab” and that Israeli soldiers had asked to see her identification papers to prove she was not a Muslim. They backed down, she said, when she showed them that her children were clearly Jewish.

The trend has also caused tensions in family life. One man went to a rabbinical court in an attempt to get a ruling to force his wife to stop wearing the burka.

The plan backfired, however. The court ruled that that woman’s behaviour was so “extreme” that it ordered the couple to undergo an immediate religious divorce.

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    Israeli rabbis clamp down on burka - Telegraph
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    Israeli rabbis are to clamp down on the growing number of devout Jewish women wearing the burka by declaring the garment an item of sexual deviancy.
    • InfiniteGlitch@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      15 hours

      Seriously, the more I read about Israel and their “rules, behavior and attitudes”. The more I despise it. Yes, despise. Despise with everything they do (genocide, apartheid and manipulation).

      • The_v@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12 hours

        30+ years ago in school I was tasked with writing an essay on Israel. In just a few days of researching I noticed that everything the Palestinians were doing looked like desperate guerrilla warfare against a superior force. Their tactics made no sense otherwise.

        That’s when I asked… Why? And started researching what Israel was doing. Holy Fuck… Today it’s more obvious with their open genocide but they have been doing this shit for 50+ years quietly. This isn’t something new. This isn’t the current leadership. This is a fundemental cultural belief that they are superior and can kill, maim, abuse and steal from any other ethnic group. The zionist group is as bad or worse than any other extremist group around.

      • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
        14 hours

        That’s the crazy thing to me. We have worlds’ better information, science and fact-checking today, and yet half the world* is still adhering to completely outdated religions and religious guidelines designed for a different peoples, long, long ago. It’s either their lifeline or a way to manipulate others, and many people would rather go extinct than change.

        * or whatever it is

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
      14 hours

      For various—mostly unfortunate reasons—my foremost question here is why would a non-South/Central Asian, non-Muslim woman wear the burqa?

      Edit: Seems the answer is modesty.

    • Mugita Sokio@lemmy.todayEnglish
      12 hours

      This is what the Talmud does to Jews by religion. They put it above the Torah, and the latter says not to add to or take away from the Word.

      • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11 hours

        Judaism isn’t a biblical religion. it is extremely different than whatever religion they had in cnaan. It is rabbinical Judaism, it’s the rules that rabbis made over centuries of diaspora.