Mrs .———– converted to —————– in 1992, and for the next 15 years she lived in ————–, celebrating the major holidays and teaching her children about the ——-faith.
But when she and her husband sought a divorce last year, she said, the——— in charge of the process had some questions. Among them: Did Mrs———observe the ————-? Did she obey the prohibition on sex during and after menstruation?
Dissatisfied with the answers, the ——- nullified her conversion. Mrs—– did not need a divorce, they ruled, because she had never been married. She had never been married because she had never been ——. And because she had never been —–, her children were not, either.
“I was in shock. I couldn’t believe it,” said Yael, 43, who would allow only her —— name to be published out of privacy concerns. Blond, blue-eyed and athletic-looking,Mrs——- is baffled by the ordeal. “My kids grew up ,” she said. “They don’t know anything else.”
