Posts Tagged ‘ divorce ’

Is a hairstyle grounds for divorce?

October 15, 2012
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Deuteronomy 24:1 says that if a wife “fails to please [a husband] because he finds something obnoxious about her… he writes her a bill of divorcement, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house.” Jewish law has extrapolated the rules for getting a divorce from this part of the Torah,…

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Choosing to Be Jewish

February 23, 2011
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Derek’s parents are divorced. He lives with his mother in Colorado, where they’re converting to Judaism.…

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