Juridical Bonds of Marriage for Jewish and Islamic Women

Ecclesiastical Law Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 51-64

  Madera, Adelaide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

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EID: 77955719382     PISSN: 0956618X     EISSN: 17518539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0956618X0900163X     Document Type: Article

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6. In Israel, a woman as an individual is not the natural beneficiary of the social security system when she is outside the family context: see Halperin-Kaddari, Women in Israel, pp 98–111.
7. See Z Mir-Hosseini, Marriage on Trial: a study of Islamic family law (third edition, London, 2000), pp 10–19.
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10. See AM Rabello, ‘Il matrimonio nel diritto ebraico’ in S Ferrari (ed), Diritto ebraico, canonico, islamico: un commento alle fonti (Torino, 2006), p 10.
11. See S Ferrari, ‘Pluralità di sistemi matrimoniali e prospettive di comparazione’, (2002) 2 Daimon 43.
12. See JJ Nasir, The Islamic Law of Personal Status (third edition, The Hague, 2002), p 45.
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14. See Rabello, ‘Il matrimonio nel diritto ebraico’, p 60, for an examination of the cases when divorce is religiously prohibited.
15. See MJ Broyde, Marriage, Divorce, and the Abandoned Wife in Jewish Law: a conceptual understanding of the agunah problems in America (Hoboken, NJ, 2001), p 16
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21. See Broyde, Marriage, divorce, and the abandoned wife in Jewish law, pp 17–28.
22. This problem does not only arise when the husband refuses the get for various more-or-less juridically founded reasons. In the past, a woman was formally ‘chained’ to a marriage bond in several situations. See E. Westreich, ‘Levirate marriage in the state of Israel: ethnic encounter and the challenge of a Jewish state’, (2003–2004) 37 Israel Law Review 426.
23. See AM Rabello, ‘Il Rabbinato Centrale di Erez Israel’, (2003) 3 Daimon 115. Some problems connected to divorce (custody of children and post-marriage division of assets) are under civil jurisdiction, but can be dealt with by rabbinical courts when they are attached to a request for a religious divorce.
24. The judge who was in charge of the start of the legal proceeding is deemed to be competent. See M Galanter and J Krishnan, ‘Personal law and human rights in India and Israel’, (2000) 34 Israel Law Review 125.
25. Rabbinical courts can order imprisonment only when it is prescribed by Talmudic law; otherwise there is the risk that a get is invalid. See A Maoz, ‘Matrimonio e divorzio nel diritto israeliano’, (2002) 2 Daimon 223–233.
26. These forms of marriage are juridically invalid on the basis of international private law. However, when two Israeli citizens celebrate such a marriage, it can be registered administratively, in order to guarantee that these partnerships receive the same social benefits granted to legitimate marriages. See Halperin-Kaddari, Women in Israel, pp 227–262.
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39. See Mir-Hosseini, Marriage on Trial, pp 115–130.
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42. See Aluffi Beck Peccoz, ‘Il matrimonio nel diritto islamico’, pp 244–245.
43. ‘Il matrimonio nel diritto islamico’, pp 230–232.
44. See Galanter and Krishnan, ‘Personal law and human rights in India and Israel’, p 131.
45. See Mir-Hosseini, Marriage on Trial, pp 49–53.
46. Marriage on Trial, pp 115–130.
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