Mazal tov to Yad La’isha: The Monica Dennis Goldberg Legal Aid Center client Chaya, who was set free this week after 35 years of marriage. Three years ago, Chaya gathered up the strength to ask her violent, adulterous, loafer husband for a divorce. He refused. The court ruled that he must give Chaya her get and …
“I want to share my private miracle with you. My divorce process was long and drawn-out and from my husband’s point of view, giving me the get was really not on the horizon. On Tuesday night, at 10:30 pm, I realized that my husband was planning to leave the country. I turned to the “Baasher …
The staff of Yad L’isha: The Monica Dennis Goldberg Legal Aid Center and Hotline undertook 100 hours of fasting in the “Agunot Challenge” (אתגר_העגונות#), a grassroots campaign launched to protest the plight of Zvia Gordetsky, an aguna of 17 years. The 53-year-old Gordetsky, whose husband opted in 2000 to sit in jail rather than divorce her, launched a hunger strike …
