Tag: agunah

This is not the first time that the rabbinic courts in Israel try to put pressure on a get refuser through sanctions against his relatives.

The halachic world, which is still debating the idea of IVF itself, will not take kindly to this decision.

After four years abroad, seeing as there no longer was a reason for him to stay away, he came home. And was arrested.

For 135 days R remained in jail and refused to release Orly, conditioning her freedom on impossible financial demands.

Yad La’Isha legal aid center demands increased sanctions in jail, convict relents.

Her husband managed to divorce his fourth wife, granting her a get after securing a bribe of $50,000.

The husband has been arrested, but has so far still refused to supply his wife with a Get.

The rabbinical judges also asked to bring their ruling to the attention of the rabbis of the city of Dimona where Sasson lives.

"When giving birth, the touch is a mixture of affection and support, when halachically the woman is Nida."

Five years ago, the man remarried, leaving his first wife without a Get which keeps her from being remarried in a religious ceremony.

With the help of the Jerusalem Police Department, the husband was apprehended and placed in detention . . .[then] brought before the rabbinical court.

A Jerusalem panel of rabbinical judges headed by Rabbi Uriel Lavi ordered the Egged bus cooperative to fire the husband within 30 days.

It remains to be seen whether the Chief Rabbinate—and in turn the Interior Ministry—will in fact register the Oren couple as being legally married.

Meir Gorodetsky is the most stubborn get refuser in Israel, and has been behind bars since the turn of the millennium.

“Women denied a divorce may as well be dead,” MK Revital Swid said.

Jerusalem led in 2016 in number of divorces: 725 couples. Meanwhile, Modi'in Illit saw a 45% rise in divorces. In all, in 2016, 10,841 couples were divorced in Israel, compared with 10,653 in 2015.

The ruling permitted an Aguna whose husband is in a vegetative state to remarry.

"A man who turns his wife into an aguna and refuses to obey the judges' order to stop abusing her is not truly a man who values halakha and maintaining a Jewish lifestyle."

Lewin said that today every time he visits Israel, he is asked to visit the Rabbinical Court to discuss cases of Israeli husbands who have absconded to the United States without giving their wives a Get.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Mossad to expand the investigation of the fate of the missing Iranian Jews.

Rambam: Regarding a husband who refuses to give a Get: "He is beaten until he says, ‘I agree.’ ”

There is never an excuse to withhold a Get from a woman. NEVER!

Lipman's proposal was crafted in coordination with Chief Rabbi Dovid Lau.

Gital Dodelson, the “chained” woman featured on the front page of the New York Post last fall, says she has received a get, or...

Jerusalem police deployed a helicopter Wednesday to help them look for a convict who jumped out from a bathroom window in rabbinical court rather...