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Without receiving a Jewish divorce document, Jewish law prohibits women from remarrying
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Fast Forward Denying Your Wife A Divorce Can Get You Arrested In Israel
Updated, June 29 Non-Israeli Jewish women can seek a divorce in the Israeli rabbinical courts, including in cases where the husband refuses to grant one, under a new law passed by the Knesset. The new government-sponsored law, which will extend the reach of the state-run religious legal bodies beyond the borders of the Jewish state,…
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Opinion How Knesset Push Will Actually Help Chained Women Worldwide
Israeli lawmakers are considering a law that would help Orthodox women across the world. Jewish law does not permit a woman to divorce her husband without his consent, and in Israel and abroad, a number of women who wish to leave their husbands are unable to do so. These women are known as agunoth –…
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Life Getting a Feminist Get
When my ex and I divorced in 2010, I didn’t think much about a get. I loved him but I knew that the relationship was beyond repair. Our civil divorce was uncomplicated. We’d been married only two years, and had no children together. We agreed that both of us would leave the marriage with what…
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Breaking News 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. The High Rabbinical Court in Jerusalem passed on Thursday the sentence, which is one of the harshest meted out in recent years to an intransigent spouse, the news site NRG…
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News 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. The survey on divorce, which under Israel’s laws is handled for Jewish couples by rabbinical judges with the authority of family court magistrates,…
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