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From: "Ruth Grant" <>
Subject: [EURO-JEWISH-L] jp vs. rabbi
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 19:27:34 -0500

>if one party had obtained a civil divorce but was unable to get a jewish
>divorce rabbi might have been unwilling to marry them.
>Leslie Rubinson []

Since, in the Jewish religion, a woman cannot get a religious divorce unless
her husband agrees, the above is another possibility for having a civil
ceremony. I don't believe that in this country, even in the 1870's, having
a civil ceremony was the only way a marriage was
recognized. I believe a religious ceremony was sufficient if the proper
paperwork was filled out by the rabbi and submitted to the civil authorities
much the same way as it is done today.

Ruth Grant, Scarborough, ME searching for:
FEIGENBLAT(T) or FAIGENBLAT(T), Anywhere
LERNER & VINESHTAIN, Labun aka Yurovshchina & Starokonstantinov, Volhynia
Gubernia, Ukraine
SMULOWITZ or SHMULOVICH, Lithuania and South Africa MINSTER, Lithuania and
South Africa
MENDICK, Russia and England                                

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