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agunah
Mossad: All 11 Jews missing after fleeing Iran in the 90s were murdered
One year after determining that eight Jews who tried to escape from Iran in 1994 were murdered on their way to Israel, the Mossad has recently found that three other Jews who left Iran three years later were also murdered, Ynet reported.
Will haredi Orthodox Jews embrace pre-nups that protect women from becoming agunot?
Breaking up, as the classic song notes, is generally hard to do. But in the Orthodox community, divorce can be particularly trying, especially for women.\n
Israeli rabbinic, legal groups partner for prenup in bid to prevent agunot
A Religious Zionist rabbinic organization in Israel has launched a new prenuptial agreement to help ensure that divorcing wives will receive a religious divorce, or get.
Esther Macner: Agunah advocate promotes post-nuptials
During a recent interview at the Journal’s headquarters, Esther Macner described herself as an “Orthodox Jewish feminist, which I’ve been all my life, before the word became a label.”
Ensuring the spirit of halachic marriage
Each time we hear of yet another heart-wrenching and infuriating agunah story, we tend to point an accusing finger at the Jewish legal system that has created these circumstances, in which spiteful, angry husbands can cynically abuse the divorce laws to extort and torment their wives.
Letters to the editor: Divorce in the Jewish community
Thank you, Ryan Torok, for your excellent coverage of the “get” story (“Till Get Do Us Part,” March 28). The “wedding” was a Chillul HaShem, a desecration of God’s name.
Israel Meir Kin is a threat to all Jewish women
A little over a thousand years ago, Rabbenu Gershom of Mainz, the leading scholar of Ashkenazi Jewry, enacted bold legal measures to protect Jewish women from abuse.
Confronting the problem of Orthodox divorce
When I began practicing law more than four decades ago, divorce in the Los Angeles Orthodox Jewish community was rare .
Opinion: Why we all need to care about Jewish divorce law
I am often asked: “Why are you so preoccupied with the problem of get refusal. Have you ever been an agunah?” The term agunah broadly refers to a Jewish woman who is “chained” or “anchored” to a dead marriage, rendering her unable to remarry, because her husband refuses to give her a Jewish bill of divorce, or get.