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July 22, 2011| 22 Tammuz 5771
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Rabbi and Rebbetzin Charged with Kidnapping, Beating Israeli “Get Refuser”
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Rupert Murdoch Pelted During Hack Hearing BY DANIEL PEREZ In the Orthodox Jewish community, there are few ways for a man to be shunned as quickly and as thoroughly by his peers as by refusing to grant a get, a bill of divorce written in accordance with Jewish law, to his wife.
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Interview with Israeli Nobel Prize Winner Robert Aumann
NYC Police Comissioner Ray Kelly (L) and Mayor Michael Bloomberg (C) speak to the press after paying a shiva call to the beveaved family of Leiby Kletzky. BY FERN SIDMAN A virtual sea of mourners packed 56th and 57th Streets near 16th Avenue in Boro Park, Brooklyn on Wednesday evening July 13, as they paid their final goodbyes to the boy that trusted a stranger and died as a result. ine-year-old Leiby Kletzky, who disappeared on Monday afternoon after leaving his day camp never to be seen again, was remembered as a "pure and holy soul" by several rabbis who delivered hespedim (eulogies) for him at the Bais Medrash Heichal Hatefillah.
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As loudspeakers blared the emotionallycharged and often tearful words of the speakers, mourners stood shoulder to shoulder outside the Kletzky family shul. "In all my years living in Boro Park, there has never been such a grisly and barbaric murder like this. This young soul was so sweet and innocent. This horrific tragedy will never leave our hearts and souls," said Yetta Schumacher, 68, who lives only several blocks away from the Kletzky family. With tears running down her cheeks, she said that "we are all one; one body and one soul and today each of us has lost a son." Speaking entirely in Yiddish, several rab-
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s the Torah only permits the husband to initiate divorce proceedings, when a couple separates and the husband refuses to make it official, his wife has no means to do so from her end. The victim thus becomes an agunah, an “anchored” woman, unable to remarry. In the Jewish community the repercussions are very severe, as any future relationships such a woman would have are considered by definition to be adulterous, and any children born from such liaisons would be dubbed mamzerim, children bearing a spiritual stigma for being born of a forbidden relationship (not to be confused with the English term “bastard,” which refers to any child born out of wedlock, which does not carry the same implications in halakha). Given the seriousness of such occurrences, and the burden such an injustice
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