When destruction is necessary for rebuilding – opinion The Temple was destroyed by the decision of God, who could no longer bear what was going on under its roof and thus made the decision to demolish it. Pnina Omer | August 6, 2022 Perhaps the most common insult that gets thrown my way on an all-too-regular …
Escaping from a marriage that almost cost her her life, woman secures get after ten-year struggle News Desk | July 29, 2021 Marking the conclusion to a difficult, violent case, Ohr Torah Stone’s Yad La’isha Legal Aid Center for Agunot was able to attain a get (writ of Jewish divorce) for S – a US …
An ancient Israeli law leaves thousands of women ‘chained’ to their wayward husbands By Middle East correspondent Allyson Horn, Fouad AbuGosh and Haidarr Jones in Jerusalem Orly Vital spent more than a decade of her adult life trapped in a marriage she wanted to leave. Spousal laws in Israel meant the 44-year-old ultra-Orthodox Jew couldn’t divorce …
FEATURED POST Are the dead more important than the suffering living? Certainly not. Chained to her get-refuser husband for 18 years, Lonna is asking Israel to refuse to bury his family to give her the leverage she needs to push for her freedom Attorney and Rabbinical Court Advocate Moriah Dayan | July 28, 2022 …
US woman married in Iran finally secures Jewish divorce Decades after marriage first dissolves, woman finally granted the chance to start a new life. Israel National News | June 29, 2022 Ten years since filing for a divorce and after seven years of her recalcitrant husband on the run, an American woman was finally granted …
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 August, she convinced the Tel Aviv Rabbinical Court to annul her kiddushin, or wedding vows, …
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 get a divorce from their spouse and move forward with their lives. Ilyssa Panitz | …
Pnina Omer, director of Ohr Torah Stone’s Yad La’isha: The Monica Dennis Goldberg Legal Aid Center, spoke to delegates of the International Council of Jewish Women (ICJW)’s “Looking to the Future” convention taking place in Jerusalem this week. The participants, hailing from National Council of Jewish Women chapters all over the world, were inspired to …
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 be her fate as well. This year, they were both finally set free. Liat Shukroun …
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, the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court issued a decision last week stating that a man who publicly …
In joint meeting of Constitution Committee and Committee on the Status of Women for Agunah Day, Committee Chairs MK Kariv and MK Touma-Sliman demand a solution to economic situation of agunot The Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, chaired by MK Gilad Kariv (Labor), and the Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality, chaired …
The plight of trapped women March 16, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk Marking Yom HaAguna, the international day highlighting the plight of “trapped women” commemorated annually on the Fast of Esther, the Yad La’isha Legal Aid Centre, part of the Ohr Torah Stone network, confirmed that they had released 49 women from unwanted marriages over the past …
