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  • Agunot – A Sharp Indictment of Israel’s Rabbinic Courts
    Written by on 31/03/2022
    “This should have been the mission of the halakhic decisors: to make sure no woman finds herself for even one day or one night without a divorce!”

  • Agunah Day: For women in Israel, marriage is captivity
    Written by on 20/03/2019
    Dr. Susan Weiss, Esq., Executive Director of the Center for Women's Justice, writes a powerful article for 2019 International Agunah Day. In the spirit of the Book of Esther she challenges the common sense regarding agunot – Jewish women held, like Esther, in marital captivity.

  • Most Israelis favor revoking the rabbinical courts' monopoly
    Written by on 27/02/2018
    69% of the Israeli public supports revoking the monopoly of the rabbinical courts on Jewish personal status matters, supports the establishment of a parallel civil system, and supports alternative, lenient rabbinic courts as a solution to alleviate the phenomenon of agunot

  • Most Israelis favor revoking the rabbinical courts' monopoly
    Written by Uri Regev on 27/02/2018
    69% of the Israeli public supports revoking the monopoly of the rabbinical courts on Jewish personal status matters, supports the establishment of a parallel civil system, and supports alternative, lenient rabbinic courts as a solution to alleviate the phenomenon of agunot

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