Tag: agunot

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

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

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

“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.

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

One who may leave his wife an agunah is not included in the general rule that we may not imprison on Shabbos.

Rivka Haut, a foremost advocate for agunot, Orthodox women who have been refused a religious divorce and also a founder of the Women of...

Another New York City man has pleaded guilty to being part of a group of men who used violent means in exchange for pay...

My involvement with Frum Divorce corresponds to a lot of the work I do at The Jewish Press helping agunot and others going through divorce.

A source close to Aharon Friedman, the estranged husband of Tamar Epstein, is denying a report that he has granted his wife a religious...

A new initiative will use Jewish law to help “Agunot” women, separated from husbands who refuse to grant them a divorce that would let them re-marry.

If the Ketubah would be taken seriously, as an enforceable legal document then there would be fewer agunot, "chained" women awaiting Jewish divorce from their husbands.