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May 28, 2018, 4:25 PM

Withholding a divorce is a form of violence

What's the difference between the recalcitrant husband and the one who hits his wife? Not too much

Peter Buchsbaum

May 24, 2018, 9:05 AM

Marriage is a basic right, 'til the rabbis pull rank

The entrance to the offices of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, Jerusalem. (Flash90)

A new bill aims to extend the reach of Israel's Rabbinate, the very body creating the problems the law is supposed to fix

May 22, 2018, 2:12 PM

A prying shame: The public scrutiny of get refusers

In May 2017, Zvia Gordetsky launched a hunger strike outside the Knesset after being refused a religious bill of divorce for 17 years (Courtesy)

We need to stop publicly prying into the nitty gritty of people's marriages and divorces in agunah cases

May 1, 2018, 7:16 PM

We’ve Solved the Agunah Crisis

I recently received a very exciting text message. It was from a woman whom I’ll refer to here as Ayala, letting me know that, after a two-year process, her civil divorce had been finalized. Finally. Thus concluded a marriage...

Apr 19, 2018, 2:16 AM

70 extraordinary women of Israel

Painting by Yael Harris Resnick, in honor of Israel's 70th birthday and Israel's women soldiers. (Courtesy, Miriam Lottner)

Celebrating those who have made the Jewish state their home, giving of themselves and their diverse talents

Yonatan Kaganoff

Apr 9, 2018, 9:20 PM

The Agunah Crisis: A vaccine is at hand

One of the problems often discussed in the Jewish media -- and, more recently, the larger media when discussing Orthodox Jews -- is called the Agunah Crisis. Jewish women who have civil divorces, but whose ex-husbands refuse to give...

Dana Janine Diamond

Mar 12, 2018, 6:05 PM

Spiritual Feminism

This OpEd in the Washington Post is eye-opening. Winston Churchill propagated the famine in India. He was far more racist than hero. Today, we have a madman at the helm in America and a Republican Congress that sits on their hands...

Feb 28, 2018, 10:40 AM

An Agunah Day reckoning

Illustrative: A Jewish couple stand underneath the 'chuppah' during their wedding in a synagogue in Paris, France, July 21, 2013. (Serge Attal/Flash90/via JTA)

Taking stock of preventative solutions that should be used by all couples marrying according to Jewish law

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Feb 27, 2018, 8:44 PM

Agunah Day: Time for the community to man up

Meme by Chochmat Nashim, for Agunah Day. (Courtesy, Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll)

Here's how to handle Jewish divorce law: encourage friends and family to sign pre- and postnups

Nov 15, 2017, 2:40 PM

Divorce: Achilles' heel of Jewish law

The town of Efrat protests a get-refusal with posters and bumper stickers (Courtesy, Jeffrey Saks)

Why my town of Efrat is actively protesting a local get-refuser

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