Pnina Omer

The writer highlights the overlooked suffering of women denied Jewish divorce and calls for preventive measures to protect soldiers' wives amid ongoing conflict.

The Temple was destroyed by the decision of God, who could no longer bear what was going on under its roof and thus made the decision to demolish it.

Over the years we have increasingly understood that get-refusal is a tool used by men who are perfectly willing to threaten their wives.

Increased public awareness and new perspectives in Jewish law bring hope to agunot

Get-refusal is nothing less than a disgrace. Although it is not forbidden by Jewish law, we have a moral and religious obligation to prevent it.

Freedom is not with the Rabbinical Court – but in the hands of the husband and his father.

As a community we must castigate, condemn and pursue anyone who uses the contemptible tool of refusing to grant a divorce.

We will continue doing whatever is necessary to release chained women because, unlike their male counterparts, very little can be done to release them within in the framework of Jewish law.

Aguna Day is a public appeal to the entire Jewish people to remember the agunot, to acknowledge the phenomenon, to root out get-refusers and to unequivocally condemn them and their behavior.

The first is the “aguna from Safed,” a case which is unquestionably an anomaly in that a get (a Jewish writ of divorce) was awarded to a woman whose husband was incapacitated by a car accident.