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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."