Ohr Torah Stone’s Yad La’isha: The Monica Dennis Goldberg Legal Aid Center held a short story competition last month for past and present agunot. The aim of the competition is to allow readers to get a glimpse into the harsh reality with which these women must grapple – every hour of every day. Below is …
Israeli Group Traps Serial Groom Turned Get Refuser, Forces Him to Give a Get By David Israel | October 26, 2021 When Y married the love of her life 16 years ago and became his third wife, she never imagined that she would end up as the victim of get-refusal even as her husband would …
In the USA, even conservatives support it A response from Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander, President and Rosh HaYeshiva of Ohr Torah Stone, in response to Yehuda Yifrah’s article of 10 October (read the translation) examining halakhic prenuptial agreements. For the past several decades, I have been involved in the issue of halakhic prenuptial agreements in …
How the Problem of Get-Refusal is Underrated by Officials – opinion People who deny the phenomenon of get–refusal, much like those who deny COVID, know how to juggle the figures in order to reach the desired conclusions, as false and unrealistic as these may be. We saw a live demonstration of this in the Knesset’s …
The controversy over prenuptial agreements: Mending the world or pushing for divorce? Is it “an incentive to break up families,” as the opponents claim, or a crucial document that prevents get refusal and extortion during the divorce process? While the heated debate over prenuptial agreements is based on halakhic arguments, they mask political and public …
‘Instant love’: Two victims of Jewish divorce refusal marry The couple, individually, needed to go overcome legal battles to regain their freedom from inside their trapped marriages. Jerusalem Post Staff, Feb 07, 2021 Leah and Uriel are both divorcees who “describe themselves as victims of “complicated relationships,” that complication being refused a get, or a …
Helping break the chains of agunot whose husbands refuse divorce – opinion Increased public awareness and new perspectives in Jewish law bring hope to agunot By Pnina Omer | December 31, 2020 Imagine for a moment that you’re a woman, not yet 40 years old and a mother of four. You wake up one morning …
Do you want to change the world? Begin within the Jewish home. Every Rosh Hashanah, the ongoing failure to find a solution for the agony of “agunot” weighs heavily against the Jewish people. Oped by Pnina Omer (September 21, 2020 / JNS) Jewish tradition cites Rosh Hashanah as the day on which the world was created. …
If one can’t have a good marriage, at least have a good divorce Get-refusal is nothing less than a disgrace. Although it is not forbidden by Jewish law, we have a moral and religious obligation to prevent it. By Pnina Omer | August 4, 2020 The Jewish festival of love falls on Tu Be’av (the …
WANTED: A Plea to the Public – “Help us find our husbands who abandoned us” by Kobi Nachshoni | YNet News | 17 April, 2019 The names Yizhar, Ronen, Hermann, Michael, Yitzhak and Erez are at the top of the Israeli Rabbinical Courts’ list of most wanted get-refusers. In some of their pictures they are …
