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.
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.
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