Generally, rabbinical courts open inquiries into a person’s Jewishness only if they suspect that one member of a couple registering to marry isn’t Jewish. But this time, the inquiry was launched while the court was adjudicating the woman’s divorce from her husband.[...]
“When the woman removed the mask of the natural bashfulness that every child of Israel has, the court developed a serious suspicion that she indeed was not a daughter of Israel,” the ruling said.
Although the woman and her mother had their Judaism certified many years ago, the dayanim decided to launch the inquiry “in light of the woman’s behavior in public and her publicizing her actions and her work before millions of viewers, and above all in light of the sages’ statement above.”
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