To pressure Orthodox men into granting their wives a Jewish divorce, activists have picketed outside their homes, marched through their synagogues and buffeted their rabbis with letters and phone ...

There is a growing movement of Orthodox Jewish women – as well as rabbis – who are speaking out about the agunah crisis in the community and helping chained women be freed. Recently ...

Q. What can be done to help the "agunah", the "chained woman" who can’t get a religious divorce? A. From Talmudic times onwards, the rabbis have tried to ameliorate the position of Jewish women ...

Looking through a Jewish lens, we can find the unbearable plight of the classic agunah (a woman who cannot remarry because she remains legally bound to her husband). When a man does not return ...

“And they’re always like, ‘I don’t know. Call me in a week.’” The process rendered Herman Sharabani an agunah, a woman who is trapped in a dead marriage, according to orthodox Jewish ...

The issue of spouses who refuse to grant a Jewish divorce (get) stems from the Torah’s mandate that “[the husband] shall write her a bill of divorce and place it in her hands.” (Deuteronomy ...

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And while an agunah cannot remarry or have more children beyond those she had with her husband, he, if he can obtain the permission of 100 rabbis, is allowed to take a new wife and create a new ...

It is the husband who seeks to escape and leave his wife without a valid get, an agunah. The Mishna Berura is emphatic, v’ein b’klal zeh – not included in this general rule [that we may not ...

The Agunah Unit of the Israeli rabbinical courts discovered the whereabouts in the United States of an ultra-Orthodox get-refuser who had fled Israel under his brother’s passport, thus avoiding ...