Deliberately invalid marriages

A few weeks ago, I wrote in horror about the possibility that Israel's rabbis were deliberately sabotaging the halachic validity of up to 30% of the marriages they were performing, to prevent a problem with mamzerim, or bastards according to Jewish law, in the future. For those of you interested in the halachic ins-and-outs, there has been a lengthy discussion on the topic on Mail-Jewish, prompted by my posting -- click here and see under 'deliberately invalid marriages.'