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What is a Hot Chani – video

I decided to make a video for all those folks who are too lazy to read my blog. It seems that the you tube audience and the blog audience are only partially combined – many you tube viewers never visit the blog.

Letters to the Editor 16 letters since 2020

  1. Fine her, she’s a witch!

    Rabbinical court penalizes a woman for witchcraft. And no, it’s not Monty
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    The rabbinical court of Haifa ruled against a woman whose husband claimed
    she practiced witchcraft in their home. The court acquitted the woman of
    refusing to cook for her husband, as the latter committed adultery, which
    the court found constituted mitigating circumstances in the woman’s
    dereliction of culinary duties. (Hebrew)

    The woman denied being a witch, but she failed a polygraph test – which is
    not accepted as evidence in regular Israeli courts. Presumably the duck test
    was unavailable. The court, composed of rabbis Yitzhak Shmuel Gamzo, Michael
    Bleicher, and Meir Kahan, admitted they found no legal precedent for
    reducing the woman’s ktuba – the money her husband pledges her in case of
    divorce – presumably since the Halachaic punishment for witchcraft is death.
    They nevertheless relied on the dubious book of Rabbi Nachman of Breslau,
    which is not generally considered to be law book (much more of a moral tale)
    to deprive her of some 90,000 NIS. Impressive.

    And no, this isn’t mythical medieval England. This is Israel, 2011. And the
    court is funded by the government.

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