Discussion
Jewish communities have maintained a strong desire for religious, cultural and economic autonomy and so have administered and enforced Judaic Law through synagogues and, where one has been established, a Beth Din in parallel with the remedies available through the secular courts of the states in which they live. Judaic Law holds that, as with the marriage ceremony, so the get must be consensual on both sides. It is the parties who marry each other not the Rabbi who marries the parties. Similarly, in the case of divorce, the Rabbis exercise what is essentially a supervisory role and it is for the parties to divorce themselves.
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