Get recalcitrant used hundred rabbis heter to marry

Yisrael Meir Kane religious get recalcitrant who lived in Los Angeles and now lives in Las Vegas, married in Las Vegas last Thursday when he claims to have "permission from one hundred rabbis". Rabbis and friends of the woman whom he refused divorce specifically flew to Las Vegas, to demonstrate against the groom.

This is a religious couple who divorced at a civil divorce court in Californian already in 2007, but since divorced the husband refuses to grant his wife a Jewish divorce, thus leaving his wife unable to remarry for seven years.

The New York Times has reported extensively on the case and the phenomenon has aroused great interest among the Jewish and general population in the U.S. Newspaper reported that friends of the Aguna woman say that the man, Yisrael Meir Kane, a reluctant divorce is withholding the get to full custody of their son, 12, and five hundred thousand dollars for a divorce.

Rabbi Kalman Topp involved in the divorce case went to Las Vegas specifically to demonstrate against the groom: "What happened here is really shameful, he not only violated the clear violation of Jewish law, but he did so by utilizing the halacha, causing brutal abuse to a Jewish family."

Meir Kane claims to have special approval of 100 rabbis allowing him to take a second wife, and the head of the court, Rabbi Tzvi Dov Abraham, gave him permission to remarry.

The case reached the offices of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, who said they do not accept divorce document signed by this Court in particular. Rabbis who support Ms. Kane say they "will continue to press for Mr. Kane granting a divorce and he will be exiled from the local Jewish community."

Mrs. Kane lives in Monsey said in response to the newspaper that the situation in which her husband was able to get married despite the opposition of the rabbis makes her and her three children prisoners, and she could never marry.

"He's just a bigamist," said Mrs. Kane, fighting for seven years to get a Jewish divorce.

The Kane couple separated in 2005, shortly thereafter Mrs. Kane for filed divorce in New York. Advice attorney closed the case and agreed to divorce by a civil divorce. Her lawyer argued that a civil divorce will allow her to receive a Jewish divorce more easily. Shortly after, Yisrael Meir Kane went to live in Los Angeles, where he filed against the civil divorce which took effect in 2007.

Rabbis approached him demanding to give the woman a divorce, including Rabbi Joshua Promovitz Rabbi of Ahavat Torah in Monsey, but Kane ignored the rabbis. Meanwhile, Kane went to live in Las Vegas, after negotiations Kane agreed on an arbitrator in Monsey who only he will decide and give the get. It turned out that the court chosen by Kane is a controversial court and most of the rabbinical courts in the U.S. and Israel, as well as the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, do not accept Gittin held at the court headed by Rabbi Tzvi Dov Abraham.

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