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esther macner
Esther Macner: Agunah advocate promotes post-nuptials
Ryan Torok
September 3, 2014
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.”
International Agunah Day Conference draws locals to support ‘chained’ women
Jewish Journal
March 8, 2012
Esther Macner, a former prosecutor and trial attorney from New York, has spent years advocating on behalf of agunot — women whose husbands have failed to give them a get, a Jewish divorce document. Now she’s on fire about getting the West Coast Jewish community to address the problem of get-refusal. Without a get, women and men are not permitted to remarry according to Orthodox Jewish law.
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