Jerusalem – The High Court of Justice issued an interim injunction on Thursday freezing an order by the Rabbinical Court of Netanya that a mother pay NIS 500 a day until she consents to have her infant son circumcised.
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In October, the rabbinical court ruled that the father of the child was permitted to have the boy circumcised despite the mother’s objections and stipulated that she pay the fine for every day she continued to refuse to the religious ceremony.
Last month, the Supreme Rabbinical Court of Appeals upheld the ruling whereupon the mother appealed to the High Court of Justice to intervene, claiming that the rabbinical court could not force her to circumcise her son.
On Thursday afternoon, Supreme Court Justice Yoram Danziger issued the interim injunction freezing the fine, and also demanded that the Netanya Rabbinical Court and the Supreme Rabbinical Court provide a response to the mother’s petition by Jan. 9, 2014.
The child is now one year old and was not originally circumcised eight days after being born due to medical problems. The couple have since separated.
The Supreme Rabbinical Court upheld the original ruling of the Netanya court writing that it appeared that the mother was refusing to have the boy circumcised as a tactic in her desire to reconcile with her husband.
“It seems that the will of the woman in preventing the circumcision is connected to trying to force [her] husband to [agree to] her claim for reconciliation,” the rabbinical judges wrote, saying however that this “will certainly distance the husband from wanting reconciliation.”
The mother said, however, that after looking into the matter she decided she did not want the boy to be circumcised on ethical grounds.
If she doesn’t believe that Hashem actually told Avrom Oveinu to do Milah, So she is under the persuasion that he did the Mila for health reasons like many ethnicities do.
In other religions, priests do things and they say, God told me to do it. But for sure, not by us.
Only In ISRAEL!! Proud to be an Israeli!
Good. We have no right to force religion on other people, and to try and do so will accomplish nothing positive.
What a shame, & israel still has the chutzpa to call them self a jewish state
While I don’t know all the inside Facts of the story to say anything regarding the Rabbinical Court Punishing And Forcing a Women to pay Money.
I don’t think that secular government should have any word in this case.