Jewish divorce
Denying Your Wife A Divorce Can Get You Arrested In Israel
The final government version opted to uphold the right solely for women, rather than including men.
How Knesset Push Will Actually Help Chained Women Worldwide
European Jewish men who deny their wives religious divorces may risk being arrested upon arrival to Israel.
Getting a Feminist Get
I learned that when it comes to divorce, egalitarianism goes AWOL.
Israeli Man Gets 5 Years in Prison for Refusing Wife a Divorce
A high rabbinical court in Israel sentenced to five years in prison a man who for years has refused to give his wife a divorce.
Poll: 75% of Israelis Want Divorce Out of Rabbinate’s Hands
Three quarters of respondents in a survey about divorce in Israel said they supported taking the procedure out of the rabbinate’s hands and subjecting it to the authority of secular family courts.
Ninth Associate of Prodfather Rabbi's Violent 'Get' Ring Sentenced
The 10th and final member of a ring that ‘unchained’ Jewish women from marriages sentenced to eight years.
N.Y. Rabbi in Jewish Divorce Torture Ring Gets 3 Years in Prison
A New York rabbi who participated in a ring that violently attempted to coerce Jewish men to grant their wives religious divorces has been sentenced to 38 months in prison.
There Is Another Way To Get a 'Get'
Some communities have resorted to torturing men who refuse to grant their wives a Jewish divorce or a ‘get.’ Michael A. Helfand proposes another way.
Protests Gather Against Husband Who Refuses to Grant Jewish Divorce
More than two-dozen people protested last week in Norwalk, Connecticut against a Jewish husband, who refused to grant his wife a divorce, the Jewish Ledger reports. The demonstration, organized by the non-profit Organization for the Resolution of Agunot (ORA), took place outside the hospital where the husband, Ephraim Ohana, works.
Historic Agunot Summit Pushes for Jewish Divorce Court
I cannot fathom the idea of working on a problem for 40 years. And yet, there is a whole group of Jewish women — and a handful of men — who have been doing just that. These are the agunah activists, some of whom have been fighting to find solutions for agunot — women trapped in unwanted marriages to recalcitrant husbands due to women’s lack of exit power from Jewish marriage – since the advent of the feminist movement in the 1970s.
