A rabbinical court in Haifa, Israel has fined a woman for practicing witchcraft

The court reduced the value of the woman's ketubah, the amount her husband must pay her in the event of divorce, by half - or about $25,000. However, the wife was acquitted of refusing to cook for her husband - the least the court could do since her husband had committed adultery. The wife denied her husband's charge that she practiced witchcraft, but she failed a polygraph test, leading the court to determine that she in fact had been practicing witchcraft. Death is the punishment for witchcraft in the Torah, but the rabbis found a source that instead allowed them to mete out the financial penalty. The couple went before the court to receive a decree of Jewish divorce, or get.