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.

|ByRACHEL LEVMORE
A room at Camp Shura designed for families to part from the deceased who have fallen in Israel's wars.
THE WRITER attends an Agunah Day event of the International Young Israel Movement at the Beit Knesset Hanassi synagogue in Jerusalem, 2014.

The IDF preventing wartime ‘agunot’ - opinion

By simply reading this article and discussing it with friends you may protect your wife, mother, and daughters by bringing the authorization to give a get to the soldiers’ and reservists’ attention.

|ByRACHEL LEVMORE
A HUSBAND signs the document in front of two witnesses, ensuring that his wife will not be chained to marriage – she looks on.

Israel's 'chained wives' are hidden victims of war - opinion

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

|ByPNINA OMER
Shir Lavi Znati is seen addressing the Knesset.

Freeing 'agunot': A lawyer's fight to help free Jewish women denied divorce

“I found it morally wrong to use the Torah to make women suffer or for revenge. I was always sure that God never meant for it to be used that way.”

|ByDVORA WAYSMAN

Bill seeks to publicly shame men refusing to give divorce

“Women denied a divorce may as well be dead,” MK Revital Swid said. “Their lives are behind bars created by their spouses.”

OCTOBER 10, 2017ByLAHAV HARKOV
File photo: Divorce.