Nowadays there seems to be a blatant double standard in Jewish divorce proceedings when it comes to responding to women halacha violators, who never seem to be publicly shamed.
“A woman who refused to have sexual relations with her husband is called rebellious (moredet)…they make proclamations about her every day in the synagogues and study halls for four weeks–Rem”a: some say that the proclamations need not be made every day, but only on Shabbat (Ran and Hagahot Maimuniyot, and it is also implied by Tur), and this seems to be the predominant opinion–saying: ‘This woman so-and-so rebelled against her husband.’ “
(Talmud, Ketubot 63b, Shulchan Aruch, Evan HaEzer 77:2)
It is a clear ruling in the Talmud (cited above) that a moredet is publicly shamed, at least once per week for her behavior. (BTW a male “mored” is also penalized by the Beit Din but that is not the topic of this post).
A number of years ago I asked a senior Hareidi rabbi why this halacha never seems to be observed. The rabbi told me “forget about halacha!”.
The Jewish public has become quite accepting of the practice of publicly shaming Jewish men who allegedly have violated halacha by not delivering a Get on demand to their wives. This includes shaming those men to the WHOLE WORLD on the Internet.
In today’s feminist dominated “Orthodoxy”, public shaming of women halacha violators seems to be almost unthinkable misogyny, even when it is mandated by halacha.
