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Friday, January 26, 2001 | return to: international
Rabbi says secular parties can’t be wedding witnesses
by JERUSALEM (JTA) -- The spiritual leader of the fervently religious Shas Party said members of the secular Meretz and Shinui part, In a weekly lesson on Jewish marriage, Orthodox Rabbi Ovadia Yosef -- notorious for his comments last summer that Jews murdered
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Meanwhile, despite the controversy over how couples may be wed, there is ample reason to consider marriage carefully: The divorce rate among Jewish couples in Israel is rising.
At 30 percent, though, the rate is still lower than the rate in Western countries. According to figures released by the director general of the rabbinical courts, 9,153 couples divorced last year, with the greatest number, 733, in Tel Aviv.
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