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Beth Din targets ‘abhorrent’ get refuser

December 23, 2015 10:15
The poster sent to shuls naming and shaming Shmiel Kahan

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Simon Rocker,

Simon Rocker

1 min read

The London Beth Din has resorted for a second time in two months to naming and shaming a man accused of denying his wife a get.

Posters were sent earlier this month to a number of synagogues in Golders Green and Hendon, north-west London, denouncing the "abhorrent conduct" of Shmiel Kahan.

They said he had refused his wife Esther Kahan-Dominitz a get for nine years and called on him to "do the right thing".

Last month, the Beth Din took out an advertisement in the JC calling on synagogues to bar entry to John Abayahoudayan for refusing his wife a get.

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