A Johannesburg court has upheld a Beit Din's right to put someone in Cherem (excommunication) and ruled that this is not a violation of their freedom of religion.
The unnamed man, as you will recall, went to the High Court to stop the local Beit Din from excommunicating him because he refused to pay the maintenance they ordered after his divorce, saying it would "destroy, defame and obliterate [him] as an Orthodox Jew." It's still unclear, as I wrote last month, why a man who refuses to support his own children thinks that not davening with a minyan is what will 'destroy his dignity as a human being' (as his lawyer put it).
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