Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: questione di educazione

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3895939,00.html
US court: Catholic woman must live as Orthodox Jew
Catholic couple ordered to live Hasidic lifestyle in order to be able to
see husband's son, who was born to ultra-Orthodox Jewish mother
Rebecca Bitton
It has been centuries since the divide between church and state has been
in place but recently it seems that religion has been taking center
stage in divorce courts across the United States. This time, the state
has ruled that ultra-Orthodox Judaism must be followed by a pair of
Catholics.
Laura Derbigney, a Hispanic Catholic woman, has been placed under court
order to keep Shabbat, keep kosher and live as a Hasidic Jew. This court
order was carried out in Chicago and the woman is now being told she
must live an Orthodox Jewish lifestyle due to her new husband’s ex-wife
who is a Hasidic Jew.
Derbigney’s husband Nelson, also a Catholic, has a son by his first
wife, a seven-year old who must carry out ultra-Orthodox restrictions
with his Catholic father as he has with his biological mother, and this
is the reasoning behind the court’s order to have the boy’s father and
new step-mother live in the ways of a Hasidic Jew.
"I truly feel it's an intrusion on my home life," Derbigney said from
her attorney's office Monday, according to NBC reports. "That I have to
now obey certain aspects of being kosher and following Shabbat in order
for my husband and I to see his son, is wrong."
These restrictions include dietary restrictions. Despite Derbigney
reportedly liking to cook Hispanic foods from her childhood, she will
not be able to feed the child pork. Furthermore, the court has ordered
that she is not allowed to shop at her regular supermarket and must shop
from a kosher supermarket, henceforth – a supermarket, according to her
interview with NBC, that is located in a different neighborhood far from
her home.
Along with this, she will definitely not be able to take the boy from
her new husband’s first marriage in a car on Saturdays, and for the same
reason no sports will be played, no electronics will be used, as she has
to follow all the laws of Shabbat.
The court order was enacted under the demands of the Hasidic Jewish
ex-wife who complained to court that the last time her son visited his
father he was fed non-kosher hot dogs.
Attorney Joel Brodsky, who is defending the Derbigneys and has won a
similar case where religion proved to be the main concern in a custody
battle, told NBC that the court’s ruling ignores the First Amendment
which describes a citizen’s right to live by their own religious
beliefs. Brodsky said, “Just because you're divorced, the court can't
say how to live your lives or what grocery store you can go to."
Brodsky’s similar case that he won in mid February of this year
coincidentally involves a Jewish ex-wife and a Hispanic Catholic father.
The father, by the name of Joseph Reyes, converted to Judaism when he
married his ex-wife Rebecca Reyes and returned to Catholicism when they
divorced. Later, he brought their daughter Ela to a church and was
afterwards sued, facing prison and fines for the church visit due to
allegations that the pair decided to raise the daughter Jewish; though
the father denies this.
This particular case was judged by Judge Edward Jordan, member of the
Decalogue Society of Lawyers (Jewish bar association) but with the
request of Brodsky, the judge was changed to Cook County Judge Goldfarb
who ruled in favour of the father’s right to send their daughter to
church during his visitations if he so chooses.
Does divorce court have the right to determine a child’s religious
affiliation based on how a child was raised prior to the divorce? Or
should the divide between state and religion be firmly upholding in
divorce courts today? The age-old controversy between state and religion
is presenting itself repeatedly in custody battles in 21st Century
divorce courts.


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