‘Matir assurim,’ a hostage by any other name: Agunot in the shadows of October 7
For years, I thought about agunot who are mesuravot get, women trapped, held captive in marriages against their will, married to spouses who refuse to grant a get, not only on
Woman says she was ‘degraded’ by rabbinic court’s order to wear a cloak to cover up
A social worker who arrived Wednesday to assist in a divorce hearing at the Haifa rabbinic court said she was told to cover herself with
Celebrating our marriage by preparing my divorce
“Maybe his pupils aren’t responding because of the sedation”. My blood ran cold. I was sitting in the cardiac intensive care unit of Shaare Zedek
Woman freed after being ‘chained’ in her marriage for 22 years
“After more than two decades of living “chained”to her husband, a woman identifying as Tamar was granted a divorce this week, a more bitter than
The reckoning of an Orthodox feminist
“When asked to define myself, I usually rattle off my list of labels, my identity salad. Human. Mom. Wife. American. Israeli. Religious-Zionist. Activist. Liberal. Orthodox-Feminist.
Ties that chafe: Israel’s stagnant marital system leaves thousands trapped
“When Elina Bardach-Yalov, a Knesset member for the Yisrael Beytenu party, wanted to get remarried in 2009, she was shocked by the hoops she was
10 years ‘chained’: Oshrat’s freedom might depend on a pedophile
From the article: Discovering that one of the witnesses at her marriage is a convicted pedophile seemed like the breakthrough Oshrat needed to be free
High Court rejects petition seeking to decriminalize marriages outside rabbinate
