Word: mamzerim
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...case involved Hanoch Langer, 27, a burly army sergeant-major, and his sister Miriam, 25. They had been barred from marrying most Jews because their mother left her first husband and married their father without a proper divorce; thus under religious law the two children became mamzerim (children of an adulterous union) and ineligible to wed anyone but other mamzerim or converts. The efforts of Hanoch and Miriam to marry their sweethearts in a valid religious ceremony became a celebrated case. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan became their advocate. Some Knesset members introduced bills which would allow civil marriage in Israel...
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