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| Oded Guez |
We have to thank the RBS"O every single minute that we have a Medina that takes action. If not we would have "les din Ve'les Dayan" just like in the USA!
The Rabbinical High Court of Appeals in Jerusalem has made the unusual decision to excommunicate, Oded Guez, a physicist at Tel Aviv University, for refusing to give his wife a get for the past four years.
They also ordered the publication of his name, photo and personal details.
The Rabbinical High Court of Appeals last week issued a herem – a writ of banishment — against Oded Guez, a physicist at Bar Ilan University, because he had refused to give his wife a divorce, the Ynet news website reported Friday.
The university said Guez had already been suspended from working at the institute’s physics department a year ago, Haaretz reported.
The herem says Guez is not to be honored, hosted, allowed to attend synagogue or even be asked as to his health or visited at home if he is ill, among other prohibitions, “until he relents from his stubbornness and listens to his betters and he unchains his wife and gives her a get [religious divorce].”
The unusual sentence was issued after Guez failed to show up for a hearing. He had appealed against the rabbinical court’s ruling last year to publish his name but lost at the High Court of Justice.
