“Cruel and evil behavior”: Get-abuser who kidnapped his children ordered to pay unprecedented amount to his wife A harsh verdict was handed down against Yigal Sagi, as part of which he was required to pay millions to his wife, to
British man banned from leaving Israel until rabbinical court rules on his divorce The unnamed man must remain until rabbinical court hears his wife’s application for get Simon Rocker | May 19, 2023 Israel’s highest court has ruled a British
Forbidden: Riki Raani’s amazing struggle to get a divorce – and be set free Riki Raani struggled for almost 20 years to get a divorce from her husband, a member of one of London’s most extreme Hasidic sects • Last
Social Impact Heroes: Why & How Pnina Omer of Yad La’isha Is Advocating for Agunot Pnina Omer, Director of Ohr Torah Stone’s Yad La’isha, says the organization advocates for women in court by giving them a voice so they can
Women’s Liberation It took seven years to locate the get-refuser who disappeared without a trace from a court hearing, and a total of 14 years during which Rachel was an aguna. Esty fled a violent relationship, knowing that aginut would
Rabbinical Court rules get refuser husband married, wife divorced The husband will be forbidden to remarry until he gives his ex-wife another divorce (get l’chumra), while his ex-wife can remarry. Zvika Klein | 4 April, 2022 In a rare ruling,
Last Second Delivery Spares Get from Hurricane Floods and Frees Trapped Woman M.’s husband fled years ago to the U.S. and refused to grant her a divorce • Last week he finally complied with the demands • In an unusual
Notorious divorce refuser arrested after 7 years on the run Despite being apprehended, Ronen Vital continues to deny his wife a divorce. The two have four children together. Chanan Greenwood and ILH Staff | September 1, 2021 | Exclusive to
After Years of Battle: 74-year-old woman wins writ of divorce “Sarah” spent years fighting for freedom from her abusive husband, who left their home to move in with another woman and then tried to use a divorce as a way
From ‘Desert Woman’ to Free Woman Hot off the press! The lovely woman in this photo, Ilanit (on left), just received her divorce after years of suffering. For seven years Ilanit was denied a divorce by her abusive husband
Living with a Collar Around my Neck As a young ultra-Orthodox woman of marriageable age, nothing really prepared me for what ensued. Oped by Orel Silam | August 16, 2019 This year, Tu Be’av – the 15th day of the
On International Women’s Day 2019, OTS’s Yad La’isha: The Monica Dennis Goldberg Legal Aid Center ran its annual “Women Moving Mountains” desert hike (Eshet Hamidbar in Hebrew), which brought together more than 300 women to show their support for and
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