The bill also gives rabbinic courts and the Chief Rabbinate sole authority over conversions.

The new attitude in civil court will serve finally to bring justice to these women; however, this kind of help should have been forthcoming from the rabbinic courts.

During this period - most of Isaac's childhood - the family lived in Warsaw, where Pinchos ran a rabbinic court or beth din.

There were four types of capital punishment, known as mitath beth din (execution by the rabbinic court).

Three rabbis together can form a rabbinic court, or beit din.

Increasing the means available to the rabbinic courts to force husbands to grant their wives a get.

In Israel, rabbinic courts can even imprison a husband until he acquiesces and grants a get to his wife.

This is not, however, an option for rabbinic courts elsewhere, since they do not have the support of the state.

The Supreme Rabbinic Court acts as the court of last resort for cases brought before the rabbinic courts.

But what knowledge did Catholic Eye, for example, have about rabbinic courts and Jewish practice of excommunication?