March 17, 2011

An international coalition of Jewish women\’s groups marked the Fast of Esther by calling on Israel\’s Knesset to enact legislation that would force recalcitrant husbands to grant their wives a religious divorce. The International Coalition for Agunah Rights this week submitted proposed legislation to the Knesset that would assist \”agunot,\” or chained women, in forcing husbands to grant a divorce under halachic, or religious, precepts.