Agunot
The 'unspoken agunot': The wives of men whose deaths by Hamas were never confirmed - opinion
In contrast to the victim of get-refusal, the war widows desperately wanted to stay with their husbands. They became agunot due to evil forces from without.
The IDF preventing wartime ‘agunot’ - opinion
Israel's 'chained wives' are hidden victims of war - opinion
Freeing 'agunot': A lawyer's fight to help free Jewish women denied divorce
Collection of Bergen-Belsen 'agunot' rabbinic rulings to be auctioned off
The rabbis of the Bergen-Belsen rabbinical court were the first to collect testimonies from Holocaust survivors right after World War II.
U.K. court confirms Jewish man must pay wife millions until he gives 'get'
In his appeal, Alan Moher tried to claim that imposing a financial sanction on him would prevent him from granting the get and therefore leaving him unable to dissolve the marriage.
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Chief Rabbi prevents 10-year-divorce refuser from burying his mother
“This is the most severe case of Agunah for over a ten years in which the husband totally refuses to allow his wife to continue her life."
Cage in Haifa highlights the struggle of women trapped in divorce
The cage was decorated with living room furniture meant to invoke a sense of home, and the visitors who stepped inside were asked to imagine the constricted world of an aguna.
Releasing chained women – by working around the Chief Rabbinate
Rabbi Daniel Sperber is innovating with annulments to help solve the ‘aguna’ problem.
Father of divorce refuser fined 5,000 shekels a day
The Tel Aviv rabbinical court ruled nearly five years ago that the man was obligated to grant a divorce, but he ignored the ruling.
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First woman ever appointed as legal advisor to rabbinical courts
Attorney Shira Ben-Eli was the woman selected, and it appears that she will work in a central office as an advisor for all the rabbinical courts.
June 11: Two RFK articles miss the point
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Walking the desert... to help unchain women
"Chained women" and allies from across Israel gather for a hike for support and sisterhood.
The ties that bind
As a community we must castigate, condemn and pursue anyone who uses the contemptible tool of refusing to grant a divorce.
