Tag: Aguna
Too Pious to Give a Get
The ongoing behavior of withholding the Get is not pious behavior, therefore one can't demand the privileges and services that a pious person requires, demands or expects.
New Bill Revokes Get-Refusing Inmates’ ‘Mehadrin’ Kosher Food, Boarding Privileges
"A man who turns his wife into an aguna and refuses to obey the judges' order to stop abusing her is not truly a man who values halakha and maintaining a Jewish lifestyle."
Religious Divorce: Where Does Justice Lie?
There is never an excuse to withhold a Get from a woman. NEVER!
NY Man Pleads Guilty to Violently Forcing Husbands to Free ’Agunot’
A New York personal trainer has pleaded guilty in federal court to being part of a group of men who used violent means in...
New Hope for ‘Agunot’ Women Trapped by Separated Husbands
A new initiative will use Jewish law to help “Agunot” women, separated from husbands who refuse to grant them a divorce that would let them re-marry.
FBI Arrests NY Rabbis for Beating Husbands Who Refuse Divorce
Many Jewish women suffer as “agunahs,” unable to re-marry because their husbands refuse them divorces. Four Jews, two of them rabbis, allegedly took the law into their hands and beat husbands until they agreed.