Divorce

A temporary move abroad can carry lasting legal consequences for Israelis - interview

For families who just marked another Rosh Hashanah overseas, another year abroad does not automatically change the legal answer. But arrangements left undefined can carry consequences over time.

THE NUMBER of Israelis moving abroad has risen in recent years.
(Illustrative) A man proposes to a woman on a private terrace near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, February 10, 2026

Public ring proposals could constitute Jewish marriages, creating halachic issues, rabbi warns

Early legal counsel prevents costly mistakes and protects your family's future.

When family and law intersect: When is it recommended to consult a family law attorney?

House Republicans Hold News Conference On Efforts To Hold Attorney General Garland In Contempt Of Congress

Ohio Rep. Miller rejects calls to leave re-election race as domestic abuse claims surface


Grapevine December 23, 2022: Equality is not a one-way street

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 PRESIDENT ISAAC Herzog lights Hanukkah candles in the Moroccan synagogue named for his grandfather, the late Rabbi Isaac Halevi Herzog, in Tel Aviv.

This rabbi is innovating rituals for Jews who have gotten divorced

For Lyssa Jaye, divorce was hard to cope with, so she was taking part in Divorce & Discovery: A Jewish Healing Retreat.

 Wedding bands (illustrative).

Rabbinic court approves publishing name of American-Israeli get refuser

The Rabbinic court allowed to publish the name of the husband who refuses to give his wife a divorce according to Jewish Law in order to pressure him.

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Man allegedly spreads poison around daycare run by ex-wife

The daycare owner was sent a video of her ex-husband spreading a liquid around the garden of her daycare. The plants he had poured it on later died.

 Illustrative image of a daycare.

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene's husband files for divorce after 27 years

Representative Greene has not outwardly acknowledged the divorce proceedings, though her husband requested the documents remain sealed.

US REPRESENTATIVE Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) addresses a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington last week.

Change Jewish marriage methods to free agunot - opinion

Management of iggun assumes that agunah is a necessary, inevitable, unending fact of life. But iggun is not a law of math or terrestrial physics. It is literally, man-made and can and must be unmade.

 CENTER FOR Women’s Justice convenes a private rabbinic court to annul the marriage of Israel’s longest-standing agunah, Tzvia Gorodetsky (dressed in white), in 2018.

Why did this couple divorce five days after getting married?

Husband allegedly hid thousands of shekels of stock losses from his wife, gave his parents their wedding money without asking her • he says she danced with her ex at their wedding

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Divorce rates in the Arab world are increasing, here’s why

The evolving status and self-perception of women has a lot to do with it, experts say

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How to prevent children from suffering during divorce

No matter their age, the offspring of divorce suffer, and their reaction to it can, and usually does, have long-term effects, mostly negative.

 Philip Marcus

Courts grant woman a Get after husband loses ability to speak

He originally refused to grant her a divorce before suffering a stroke and going mute, making it nearly impossible for him to grant one in the future.

 PROTESTERS OUTSIDE the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court demand a woman’s right to receive a divorce from an abusive husband.