TheBlackRabbitofInlé
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...(Hasidic Judaism; Lubavitchers)? Honestly, would your answer been any different if the court had deemed a bizzare Christian sect as a "religious cult"?
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In 2000, Moshe Dulberg and his wife Tali, Israelis then living in Genoa, Italy, were divorced. Their two daughters; Nitzan 6, and Danielle 2 remained in the mother's custody for four years.
In 1996, the woman became religious and remarried. Her former husband brought suit in Venice juvenile court to remove Tali's guardianship, saying her new lifestyle rendered her unfit to care for her daughters.
In a late 1996 visit with her daughters to Israel, the woman made a fateful decision to remain.
For the next 2 1/2 years, the woman hid with her daughters. When found, in April of 1999 the Israeli Supreme Court returned her daughters to Genoa, under the Hague Convention, for a custody determination.
Two psychologists charged Orthodox Judaism views "exploitation and cruelty to minors as legitimate ... and perverted behavior as normal." They compared Orthodox parents to drug addicts in their inability to serve as a "loving source of affection" for their children.
The court, guided by the assumption that the lifestyle of normal Italian children is self-evidently better, characterized the Lubavitch movement, through which the woman originally became religious, as a "totalitarian sect." The court dismissed the mother's claim to her daughters because, it said, she belonged to a "religious cult."
Thus, Mr. Dulberg won absolute authority over all educational decisions involving Nitzan and Danielle, with the explicit goal that they be exposed to the full range of Italian culture and a "normal life."
http://www.come-and-hear.com/editor/na-bjt-02-04-00/index.html
http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/12227/italian-custody-battle-tears-girls-from-orthodox-mother/
Her "cult"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chabad
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In 2000, Moshe Dulberg and his wife Tali, Israelis then living in Genoa, Italy, were divorced. Their two daughters; Nitzan 6, and Danielle 2 remained in the mother's custody for four years.
In 1996, the woman became religious and remarried. Her former husband brought suit in Venice juvenile court to remove Tali's guardianship, saying her new lifestyle rendered her unfit to care for her daughters.
In a late 1996 visit with her daughters to Israel, the woman made a fateful decision to remain.
For the next 2 1/2 years, the woman hid with her daughters. When found, in April of 1999 the Israeli Supreme Court returned her daughters to Genoa, under the Hague Convention, for a custody determination.
Two psychologists charged Orthodox Judaism views "exploitation and cruelty to minors as legitimate ... and perverted behavior as normal." They compared Orthodox parents to drug addicts in their inability to serve as a "loving source of affection" for their children.
The court, guided by the assumption that the lifestyle of normal Italian children is self-evidently better, characterized the Lubavitch movement, through which the woman originally became religious, as a "totalitarian sect." The court dismissed the mother's claim to her daughters because, it said, she belonged to a "religious cult."
Thus, Mr. Dulberg won absolute authority over all educational decisions involving Nitzan and Danielle, with the explicit goal that they be exposed to the full range of Italian culture and a "normal life."
http://www.come-and-hear.com/editor/na-bjt-02-04-00/index.html
http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/12227/italian-custody-battle-tears-girls-from-orthodox-mother/
Her "cult"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chabad