Keep Halacha Out of the Courts
Melvin Teitelbaum
1983
[Introduction]
The decision of 15 February 1983 by the New York State Court of Appeals in the Case of Avitzur v. Avitzur has been hailed by religious and legal scholars alike. The decision recognized as legally binding in civil courts a clause generally included in the ketubah for marriages performed by Conservative Rabbis.
Even Orthodox Jewish…
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