Standing Up for Agunot
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
By Martyna Starosta March 13, 2014
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.
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