Coercive Control: A Legal Definition of ‘Get’ (Jewish Divorce) Abuse
I have witnessed the insidious effects of coercive control in the lives of victims and their children. Get abuse is one form of coercive control.
I have witnessed the insidious effects of coercive control in the lives of victims and their children. Get abuse is one form of coercive control.
In this case, the sins of the son are the sins of the father.
Following eight years of struggle, an Israeli mother named Adina Porat finally received a Jewish writ of divorce, or get, earlier this month, bringing back into the headlines the plight of “agunot” — so-called chained women trapped in marriages and unable to move on because their husbands refuse to grant a divorce.
After more than eight years of waiting, an Israeli woman was freed from her marriage after an unprecedented campaign to pressure her husband to grant her a Jewish writ of divorce, or get.
Rabbi Jay “Yaakov” Goldstein was sentenced to eight years in prison for his participation in a ring that violently attempted to coerce Jewish men to grant their wives religious divorces.
A Brooklyn man was sentenced to four years in federal prison for attempting to violently coerce a recalcitrant husband into giving a religious divorce.
Three rabbis were convicted of planning to kidnap Jewish men in order to force them to grant their wives a religious writ of divorce.
Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi David Lau intervened to help a woman obtain a religious divorce after a 14-year wait.