No Way Out

Rivkah Lubitch calls on the public to start making changes in the untenable situation of marriage and divorce in the rabbinic courts: “It cannot be that the power to keep the other party chained in the bonds of marriage is in the hands of someone who has turned from a lover into an enemy.”

Rivkah Lubitch, a regular contributor to Y-net’s Jewish scene and a rabbinical advocate working at The Center for Women’s Justice, stresses that:  “Halachic scholars must start making radical changes to the Halacha being applied nowadays in the Rabbinic Courts, using the existing Halachic tools at their disposal…”

“Tzohar rabbis also need to formulate positions on these important issues and express them publicly. We cannot leave the entire matter of matrimony to the rabbinic court judges, simply because they are the ones ruling on these matters. On second thought, we also cannot leave these important issues up to Tzohar rabbis, halachic poskim and candidates for rabbinic judicial seats. The public is called upon to stand up and take action. Before you get married—sign a document that includes a "condition" in the kiddushin, or "retroactive get by agency." You can begin to make a change.”

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