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NANCY

The following story was posted to the SKEPTIC maillist. I thought some of
errancy's readers might find it of interest.

Nancy Todd
todds@pa.net

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>   JERUSALEM, Feb 26 (AFP) - An Israeli religious couple with nine  

>children will have to divorce after rabbis ruled the wife had 

>"disgraced" her husband by being raped, the Yediot Aharonot 

>newspaper reported Thursday. 

>   Senior religious leaders in the Jewish state searched for a  

>ruling in religious scripts that would allow the couple, known to 

>their friends as Romeo and Juliet, to stay together. 

>   But in the end the rabbis ruled that they would have to  

>separate, the daily said. 

>   According to Jewish law, a married woman has "disgraced her  

>husband" if she tells him she has been raped and he believes her. 

>   The unnamed Orthodox woman was brutally raped by foreign workers  

>while she was returning home from immersion in a religious bath in 

>Bnei Brak, a suburb of Tel Aviv, Yediot reported. 

>   The rabbis searched desperately for a way to let the two stay  

>together, even searching for mistakes in their marriage agreement to 

>rule it null and void and thus be able to declare the woman had been 

>raped while single. 

>   Religious author Naomi Regen said the rabbis had not searched  

>hard enough. "Usually, when the rabbis want, a way under Jewish law 

>can be found," Regen told army radio. "It is a failure of Jewish law 

>that they didn't find a way." 

>   But a leading rabbi in the southern city of Beer Sheva said the  

>husband could save the marriage by saying he did not believe his 

>wife had been raped, the newspaper reported.

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