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Frum Mom of 6 Released From Jail

Julie Goffstein, a frum mother of 6 who garnered support from around the world after being thrown in jail by an Ohio judge, has been released. Full Story

Flory Levy, 91, OBM

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understand
July 19, 2017 8:48 am

I myselft am a single mother raising six kids . I so can understand her anguish and pain, maybe even not, because I am not in her place. But I feel for her so much!!
May we have an end to all our tzoris in galus. Moshiach Now!!

It's not over.
July 18, 2017 7:48 am

Thank you to all who contributed financially. That’s half of it. Difficult times ahead to come. Let’s all keep this family in our daily prayers.

so happy to hear!!!
July 16, 2017 2:44 pm

this is the best news COL has put out, BH ten times

#20
July 14, 2017 10:37 am

Your suggestion she should get together with a man for the sake of the children who throws their mother in jail is unimaginable.

There is more to the story
July 14, 2017 8:51 am

The visitation rights were for the kids to spend every other shabbat and half the yom tovim with the father. That meant the kids could only observe half the yom tovim and every other shabbat besides not being allowed kosher food. Also the mother was supposed to put the youngest child in public school. The father is very anti religious

Such beautiful kids kah
July 14, 2017 2:38 am

What a shame that the family fell apart…..maybe funds can go towards help in saving their marriage and the kids future. Raising six kids close in age is not easy especially if they are all boys….help and support for the mom and dad as parents and as a couple is crucial. Now things are really rough but hopefully they can work things out….just for the sake of these gorgeous children and their happiness!

To #4
July 13, 2017 11:14 pm

#1 Did not say anything about two wrongs making a right.

The first Collive article, on this story had comments that claimed that men don’t suffer from such things and that ‘all men are powerful who always get what they want, in divorces” and that even men who are pedophiles get custody of the kids.
So #1 (and others) simply pointed out that plenty of men suffer from such situations, where the woman has the upper hand.
Thgat has nothing to do with saying ‘two wrongs make a right’, which #1 did not say.

good for COL for publishing this woman's plight
July 13, 2017 11:00 pm

and getting her released.

Too bad it doesn’t seem to work with Rubaskin….

Mazaltov Basya
July 13, 2017 10:51 pm

May your Yeshua salvation & healing happen fast

To #1
July 13, 2017 10:47 pm

You’re glad this woman is freed but her ex said what those men you speak of say, that she denied court ordered visitation and he was paying child support ,so there’s always more to it than that.

Great news
July 13, 2017 10:20 pm

Terrible for a mother to be thrown in jail and fighting to see her own kids, nothing justifies this especially an unjust system

To #1
July 13, 2017 10:09 pm

A man according to the law only has to pay child support around a quarter of what he earns. and has visitation rights. This is so standard even for abusive men that he wouldn’t need a fancy lawyer to have that basic right, especially if he’s paying huge sums of child support.

To number #1
July 13, 2017 8:49 pm

You are so right!!!!
I know myself a story of a men that can’t see his kids.
Because lack of money to pay the lawyers.

So wonderful!
July 13, 2017 8:33 pm

Thank you COL for being the true lead voice on this issue.

It must be noted that Julie Goffstein, Basya bas Devorah Leah, would have chas vsholom spent all those days in jail RL if it meant getting back her kids. Now the real fight begins. To reunite the family and save the kids.

AMAZING
July 13, 2017 6:41 pm

SO HAPPY …

thank Gd
July 13, 2017 6:35 pm

So happy. I called the judge office yesterday
Good

Shay
July 13, 2017 3:55 pm

She is out but she still cannot see her kids and needs a lot of help to win the court case.. she still needs funds desperately.

wow!!!!
July 13, 2017 3:41 pm

this is truly inspiring! This is what happens with jews we help them bc ou neshama is crying out for that person!

wonderful news
July 13, 2017 3:03 pm

I agree with the first comment about men having to deal with the same situation. Baruch Hashem she is out!

Mazel tov !!
July 13, 2017 12:28 pm

BH. So great (and too rare)when Emes wins !!

Usual bias in the good old US
July 13, 2017 10:37 am

Against religious Jews. See any pattern?

to #1
July 13, 2017 9:25 am

you are right
but two wrongs dont make a right
you should begin to write about it with specific true examples without writing names
but it is a crazy situation for one too many men and one too many women
Moshiach NOW

An Admirer
July 13, 2017 7:16 am

Chasdei HaShem. May she and her beautiful Family be GeBentsched MIT Brachos und Simchos.

wonderful!!!!
July 13, 2017 6:54 am

Boruch Hashem

Hmmmm..just wondering
July 13, 2017 6:00 am

While I am glad and relieved for this woman that she was helped by the worldwide Jewish community…I am left wondering where is the outcry when similar stories happen to men…do you know how many men have to sit in jail for the same reasoning…have their children alienated from them and still expected to pay huge sums of child support etc…where is the outcry then?

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