This article uses a feminist human rights approach and focusses on one of the most painful experiences in intimate relationships, unveiling a hitherto unexplored type of human rights infringement for divorced women, namely the right to establish a family in Israel, purported to be a democratic state. This phenomenon is based on religious marriage rules and prohibitions that include, inter alia, the classification of Jews into 10 hierarchical pedigrees, which are partially equivalent to Indian castes. Owing to this caste-like classification, thousands of couples are proscribed from marrying each other every year in Israel. This article focusses on couples that disobeyed the prohibitions on couples consisting of male Cohanim (descendants of Jewish priests) and divorced women, as one type of forbidden marriage. Four themes emerged from data analysis of narratives of 26 interviewees, which converge to a common motif of the liminality of Cohen-divorcee couples. The article argues that this liminality undermines the basic rationale of the prevailing millet (personal law) system and discusses the implications of this liminality for women’s human rights and religion-state relations.

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以色列违反种姓婚姻禁令的夫妇

本文采用女权主义人权方法，聚焦亲密关系中最痛苦的经历之一，揭示了离婚妇女迄今为止未曾探索过的一种侵犯人权行为，即在以色列建立家庭的权利，据称是一个民主国家. 这种现象基于宗教婚姻规则和禁令，其中包括将犹太人分为 10 个等级血统，这部分地等同于印度种姓。由于这种种姓分类，以色列每年都有数千对夫妇被禁止结婚。本文重点关注违反禁止男性 Cohanim（犹太牧师的后裔）和离婚女性组成的夫妻的禁令，这是一种禁止婚姻。对 26 位受访者的叙述进行数据分析后得出了四个主题，这些主题都集中在科恩离婚夫妇的阈限这一共同主题上。文章认为，这种限制破坏了现行小米（属人法）制度的基本原理，并讨论了这种限制对妇女人权和宗教-国家关系的影响。