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Their divorce was settled three years ago, but there they were Friday, back in Cook County Domestic Relations Court, this time fighting over a contentious religious issue:

Could a devout Jewish mother force her ex-husband, who isn’t Jewish, to feed their 7-year-old son kosher food when he has the boy?

And couldn’t the judge please also make Nelson Derbigny, a 52-year-old North Sider, allow the boy to wear his yarmulke to his public grade school?

With interfaith marriages on the rise, child-custody battles centering on religion are likely to become increasingly common, experts say.

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