The judge is a bigot who should be impeached and removed from office.
“a deep animus toward religious observance in general and the observant values of his children in particular. He proceeded to launch a battle against the mother’s religious teachings and observance and demanded that the children be ripped from the religious school that they had attended their whole lives and from any aspect of observance.”
That’s against halacha.
Okay this is pretty complicated and I suspect there’s more to the story here. They should’ve went to a rabbi or beis din to work this out. There’s a difference between saying he doesn’t want the kids to be raised Chasidic and not being raised Jewish at all, i.e. other variants of Orthodox.
The mother shouldn’t be plastering lashon hara against the father on websites. That’s ridiculously harmful to the kids.
According to halacha, the parents are responsible to teach the children Torah and a trade to earn a living.
The husband of Julie Goffstein is a non-Jew who converted to Judaism and then changed his mind sometime after they were married. Their divorce (filed in 2010) was specifically due to his objection to her religious practices. This article seems to cover events from a few years ago.
The article mentions Cincinnati and Toronto but doesn’t say where this happened. Was it in the USA?
Sounds like a judge unfamiliar with the First Amendment.
- Homeschooling is mentioned, but a Hebrew religious school is mentioned. Is this a matter where the mother is teaching life skills but the Rabbi's school their religion? What's going on here?
- The father loses a custody case, but the gets some of the children. Was this a review by another judge? What's the progression here from "losing" to "winning"?
- The older children is left with the mother, but the younger ones taken away. This seems to be opposite to that which one would expect if the custody was divided. Why does the father not receive the older and the younger left where a mother's attention to the younger ones needed. There's something awry here.
(And I am asking as a father who obtained the custody of my four children though opposed, and as the grandfather of ten grandchildren very successfully home-schooled in a pious home. The oldest will receive his PhD in engineering this year, for example. And the next younger four, having "graduated" are happily fulfilling their life goals.
I have also been very close to two cases where the separated mother totally failed in "home-schooling" their children, ruining their youthful preparation, while the fathers were prevented by the courts from interceding or intervening.)
I don't think you need to keep on re-posting your own blog word for word here, now that the FR audience has been alerted.
One cannot comment further without a better and less one-sided overview, a goodly portion of which is from another less partial source.