Aguna
Woman receives Jewish divorce after three-year struggle following financial pressure on husband
The couple had lived in Florida for over a decade, before separating in 2023. The husband refused to grant the woman, L., a get, demanding increasing financial compensation for it.
Rabbinical court chaos leaves Israelis trapped in a broken system - opinion
The 'unspoken agunot': The wives of men whose deaths by Hamas were never confirmed - opinion
IDF soldiers’ wives at risk: The urgent case for conditional divorces
Rabbinical courts' use of polygraphs in divorce proceedings ‘unnecessary’
A women's rights organization expressed concern regarding the use of polygraphs tests by the rabbinical courts in divorce proceedings.
Collection of Bergen-Belsen 'agunot' rabbinic rulings to be auctioned off
The rabbis of the Bergen-Belsen rabbinical court were the first to collect testimonies from Holocaust survivors right after World War II.
America’s pain and the aguna’s chain
Each aguna story represents a woman (or man) trapped in a lonely world of frustration and bitterness, bordering on cruelty.
Chief Rabbi prevents 10-year-divorce refuser from burying his mother
“This is the most severe case of Agunah for over a ten years in which the husband totally refuses to allow his wife to continue her life."
Cage in Haifa highlights the struggle of women trapped in divorce
The cage was decorated with living room furniture meant to invoke a sense of home, and the visitors who stepped inside were asked to imagine the constricted world of an aguna.
‘No one should be an aguna for even a day’
Organization for wives with recalcitrant husbands aims to bring awareness to plight
Do we love our daughters less than they do theirs?
This week, we mark International Aguna Day, traditionally held on Ta’anit Esther, the fast on Purim eve. (An aguna is a Jewish woman who is “chained” to her marriage.)
Prevention of the classic ‘aguna’
The problem of a spouse, whether the husband or the wife, refusing to sever the bonds of marriage in accordance with Jewish law even at the marriage’s end, is unfortunately all too common.
US citizen held hostage by Israeli rabbinical court
There can be little doubt that the Israeli rabbinical court is holding this American citizen as a hostage in violation of both Israeli law, Jewish law and basic humanitarian principles.
Rabbinical Court refuses to accept ruling freeing 20-year Agunah
An independent court ruled to annul the marriage, but the rabbinical court has instead opened proceedings against the imprisoned husband.
