Abstract The article focuses on one of the most painful experiences in intimate relationships and unveils a hitherto unexplored type of human right infringement, namely the right to establish a family in Israel, purported to be a democratic state. Thousands of couples are proscribed from marrying each other every year in Israel. This paper focuses on Jewish couples consisting of male Cohanim (descendants of Jewish priests) and female divorcées, as one among other types of forbidden marriages. Four themes emerged from data analysis of narratives of 26 interviewees, which converged to a common motif of liminality of Cohen-divorcée couples. Based on empirical data, I describe the predicament attendant to this human rights violation which is transmitted to offspring of these 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 human rights and religion-state relations.

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互相禁止结婚的犹太配偶建立家庭权利的侵犯

摘要本文着重介绍亲密关系中最痛苦的经历之一，并揭示了一种迄今为止尚未探索的侵犯人权的形式，即在以色列建立家庭的权利，该权利据称是一个民主国家。以色列每年禁止成千上万对夫妇结婚。本文重点介绍由男性Cohanim（犹太神父的后裔）和女性离婚夫妇组成的犹太夫妇，以及其他几种禁止的婚姻。通过对26名受访者的叙述进行数据分析得出了四个主题，这些主题融合为科恩-迪沃塞夫妇的性倾向的共同主题。基于经验数据，我描述了这种侵犯人权的困境，这种困境被传递给这些夫妇的后代。