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2 unusual facts about beth din


Horayot

It discusses laws pertaining to errors in judgment by a Jewish court.

Moses Rintel

The Reverend Moses Rintel, S.J.M., (1823 – 9 May 1880) was a Jewish Rabbi in colonial Victoria (Australia) who established the first Beth din (rabbinical court) in the British empire outside of London.


Arthur Waskow

Waskow was ordained a rabbi in 1995 by a transdenominational beth din (rabbinical court) made up of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, with Lubavitch Hasidic lineage; Rabbi Max Ticktin, ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary (Conservative); Rabbi Laura Geller, ordained by the Hebrew Union College (Reform); and Dr. Judith Plaskow, a leading feminist theologian.

Eliyahu Federman

In 2010 the New York Times published a letter that Federman wrote challenging a gag order issued by the Beth Din in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights section, which prohibited members of the Lubavitcher community from speaking with the police or media.

Prenuptial agreement

In 2004, the High Court of South Africa upheld a cherem against a Johannesburg businessman because he refused to pay his former wife alimony as ordered by a beth din.


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Moshe Shatzkes

In 1931, he was asked to become rabbi and Av Beth Din of Łomża.