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Featured / Haredim & Hassidim / Police and Crime / The Courts / Religious & Secular in Israel

After 7 Years on the Run, 135 Days in Prison, Haredi Get Refuser Finally Unshackles Wife

By Jewish Press News Desk

For 135 days R remained in jail and refused to release Orly, conditioning her freedom on impossible financial demands.

Israel / Police and Crime

7 Year Manhunt for Get Refuser Ends with Arrest on the Streets of Tel Aviv

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The husband has been arrested, but has so far still refused to supply his wife with a Get.

Israel

Defying Predictions, Israel Sees Three Percent Fewer Divorces in Pandemic Year

By Israel Hayom

According to rabbinical-court data,11,076 couples were divorced in 2020, as compared with11,451 in 2019.

In Print / Editorial

Revisiting The Case Of The ‘Get Rabbis’

By Editorial Board

The initial prosecutions were marked by government conduct that should shock the conscience of anyone who believes in fair play.

The Muqata

Too Pious to Give a Get

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.

Israel / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment / Judaism

Gett Nominated for the Golden Globes

By JTA

A Golden Globes award will help women still chained by obstinate husbands.

Op-Eds

Leniencies In The Matter Of Agunot

By Rabbi Ephraim S. Sprecher

Rambam: Regarding a husband who refuses to give a Get: "He is beaten until he says, ‘I agree.’ ”

Op-Eds

Justice For The Agunah

By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran

One who may leave his wife an agunah is not included in the general rule that we may not imprison on Shabbos.

NY / News Briefs / Judaism

Another NY Man Pleads Guilty of Violence against Divorce-Refusers

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, […]

Emes Ve-Emunah

Religious Divorce: Where Does Justice Lie?

By Harry Maryles

There is never an excuse to withhold a Get from a woman. NEVER!

NY / News Briefs / Judaism

NY Man Pleads Guilty to Violently Forcing Husbands to Free ’Agunot’

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 […]

Op-Eds

The Torah Never Intended a Get to Be a Weapon

By Batya Israel

Can you imagine being deprived for years of conjugal relations, intimacy, and a home life?

US / Politics / News Briefs / Judaism

Report of Tamar Epstein Get Denied

By JTA

A source close to Aharon Friedman, the estranged husband of Tamar Epstein, is denying a report that he has granted his wife a religious writ of divorce, or get. This week, the Organization for the Resolution of Agunot, or ORA, issued a flyer and fundraising call announcing that “Tamar is Free,” leading to an erroneous […]

The Courts / News Briefs / Religious & Secular in Israel

In Groundbreaking Decision, Rabbinic Court Equates Lesbian and Heterosexual Relations

By Dovid Schwartz

After 10 years of marriage, with 2 children, the wife began an affair with her female boss.

Serials

Persuaded - Chapter IV

By Barbara Bensoussan

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