Menachem Hacohen [SEP] occupation
Menachem Hacohen
Menachem Hacohen (, born 26 July 1932) is an Israeli rabbi, writer, thinker and former politician. He headed the Religious Worker faction in the Histadrut trade union, was member of the Knesset for the Alignment between 1974 and 1988, and also served as chief rabbi of the Moshavim Movement and the Histadrut. Between 1997 and 2011 he held the post of chief rabbi of Romanian Jewry.
Biography.
Born in Jerusalem during the Mandate era, Hacohen was educated in the Slabodka yeshiva, before being
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In 2004, Justice Menachem HaCohen of the Jerusalem Family Court offered new hope to "agunot" when he ruled that a man refusing his wife a "get" must pay her NIS 425,000 in punitive damages, because "[R]efusal to grant a "get" constitutes a severe infringement on her ability to lead a reasonable, normal life, and can be considered emotional abuse lasting several years." He noted that "[T]his is not another sanction against someone refusing to give a "get", intended to