agunot

"By surrounding the agunot with other women, we can provide them with a feeling of strength and hope."

Upon his passing last month, congregants remember the humble Torah giant at the helm of the Young Israel of Hillcrest for 25 years.

Historians will look back on this period of our history and be perplexed. How did the State of Israel, founded on the dream of freedom, end up being the engine of women’s imprisonment?

A new act in the UK targeting Jewish husbands who refuse to provide religious divorces to their wives is expected to lower the number of Jewish women held in a state of religious marriage limbo.

In fact, the institution of a get was biblically initiated as part of a series of laws to preclude spousal abuse – the first laws of this nature in human history.

Queen Esther saved the Jewish people. The question remains, who will save Jewish women from the abuse of get refusal?

Instagram is not novel, the medium is new, but the message is the same.

The organization, founded in 1995, is at the forefront of the struggle in Israel to help free 'agunot,' or chained women.

The complexity of the situation was due to the hatband having had a severe stroke six years earlier.

Women need a safe and clear exit strategy from a broken marriage; whether abusive or not.