Standing Up for Agunot by the Forward
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Standing Up for Agunot

Martyna Starosta

Shira Dicker protests the plight of chained women, or agunot, whose husbands refuse to grant them religious divorces, during a small Times Square gathering on International Agunah Day.

Standing Up for Agunot

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Martyna Starosta

Martyna Starosta

Martyna Starosta is a former digital media producer of the Forward.

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