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Locality
A court in Israel has ordered the government there to recognize marriages conducted by an officiant in Utah between Israelis attending remotely via videoconferencing from Israel. Why, you ask, would Israelis be interested in being married under Utah law? Under Israeli law, as under the law of the Ottoman Empire and the British Mandate that……
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Interesting Issue of the Day: Recognition of Remote Civil Marriages In Israel
The Forward and friend of Letters Blogatory Eugene Volokh have both written about an interesting case before the Israeli Supreme Court. In Israel, which kept the old Ottoman laws on personal status after independence, all marriages must be contracted in a religious ceremony; there is no civil marriage. This law makes it impossible for some……