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By Vera Kessler
Are you a single mother, widow or divorcee who dreads shabbos (shabbat)?
By Vera Kessler
Devorah Sisso is an internationally acclaimed Torah educator, motivational speaker and life coach.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Haifa Rabbinic Court was reportedly “stunned” by the brazenness of the woman, who demanded during the divorce proceedings more than half of the couple’s home value.
For 135 days R remained in jail and refused to release Orly, conditioning her freedom on impossible financial demands.
The husband has been arrested, but has so far still refused to supply his wife with a Get.
By Israel Hayom
According to rabbinical-court data,11,076 couples were divorced in 2020, as compared with11,451 in 2019.
By JNi.Media
The ruling encourages Bedouin husbands to marry many women and divorce them on paper, while receive assistance for their polygamous families with income supplements intended for the single mothers but in reality going to the spouses.
The initial prosecutions were marked by government conduct that should shock the conscience of anyone who believes in fair play.
By JNi.Media
Mothers will also have to pay some amount of child support, especially if they earn more than their ex.
The life and times of Jewish Activist Shifra Hoffman.
Find out why women in particular should research what they may be entitled to when they retire, whether single, married, or divorced. Depending on your situation, it may be more than you think.
By JNi.Media
The process of having the therapeutic and/or mediation meetings before being able to file for divorce will take 45 days.
By Alanna Fine
A large part of me was left wondering why his parents didn’t explain what divorce was and why we had to be his introduction to the topic.
By JoeSettler
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.
Financial expert Peter Dunn discusses the most common money mistakes that arise during divorce
By JNi.Media
The husband said that at his old age he wants to live with a woman, “who can make him a cup of tea,” hence the request from the court.
"With the launch of this new historic agreement, we hope to make the lives of newlyweds better and more meaningful, so that if, God forbid, the marriage breaks up, it will be done in a fair and respectful manner.”
Rambam: Regarding a husband who refuses to give a Get: "He is beaten until he says, ‘I agree.’ ”
The bodies of two murdered children have returned to their mother in Ohio to be laid to rest.
The Knesset has passed an amending eliminating the term “single parent family” from the lexicon of the legal system.
We should invite divorced people into our homes for Shabbas and Yom tov.
By JTA
Another New York City man has pleaded guilty to being part of a group of men who used violent means in exchange for pay to force Jewish husbands to give their wives religious divorces. Simcha Bulmash, 30, of Brooklyn pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Trenton, N.J., to participating in the extortion ring, […]
By JTA
A New York personal trainer has pleaded guilty in federal court to being part of a group of men who used violent means in exchange for pay to force Jewish men to give their wives religious divorces. David Hellman, 31, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Trenton, N.J. and could be sentenced to up […]
Hearing that someone has been divorced nowadays doesn't have the same connotations it used to.
By JTA
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.
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.
Jerusalem police deployed a helicopter Wednesday to help them look for a convict who jumped out from a bathroom window in rabbinical court rather than face divorce proceedings intended to free his estranged wife of 12 years to marry again. Shai Cohen, 40, has been in jail for six years for refusing to divorce his […]
Men ultimately fall in love with those women who bring out their best qualities.
By Batya Medad
If the Ketubah would be taken seriously, as an enforceable legal document then there would be fewer agunot, "chained" women awaiting Jewish divorce from their husbands.
Individual therapy can be very helpful as long as the therapist does not turn his or her client against the spouse without hearing their side of it.
July 3, 2026 
