Agunot

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.

MAY 4, 2026|ByTZVI JASPER

A WOMAN seeking divorce in a ‘beit din’ was the sole female in the room until the advent of ‘toanot.’ (Illustrative)

A room at Camp Shura designed for families to part from the deceased who have fallen in Israel's wars.

The 'unspoken agunot': The wives of men whose deaths by Hamas were never confirmed - opinion

In contrast to the victim of get-refusal, the war widows desperately wanted to stay with their husbands. They became agunot due to evil forces from without.

MARCH 10, 2025|ByRACHEL LEVMORE

THE WRITER attends an Agunah Day event of the International Young Israel Movement at the Beit Knesset Hanassi synagogue in Jerusalem, 2014.

The IDF preventing wartime ‘agunot’ - opinion

By simply reading this article and discussing it with friends you may protect your wife, mother, and daughters by bringing the authorization to give a get to the soldiers’ and reservists’ attention.

DECEMBER 15, 2024|ByRACHEL LEVMORE

A HUSBAND signs the document in front of two witnesses, ensuring that his wife will not be chained to marriage – she looks on.

Israel's 'chained wives' are hidden victims of war - opinion

The writer highlights the overlooked suffering of women denied Jewish divorce and calls for preventive measures to protect soldiers' wives amid ongoing conflict.

OCTOBER 7, 2024|ByPNINA OMER

Freeing 'agunot': A lawyer's fight to help free Jewish women denied divorce

“I found it morally wrong to use the Torah to make women suffer or for revenge. I was always sure that God never meant for it to be used that way.”

AUGUST 24, 2024ByDVORA WAYSMAN

Shir Lavi Znati is seen addressing the Knesset.

Divorce refusal will only be solved if everyone does their part - opinion

The bill dictates “divorce refusal” as the situation in which a court has issued a ruling requiring the husband to give a divorce that the husband subsequently ignores.

JULY 10, 2024ByALI ZAK

Wartime ‘agunot’ - opinion

Preventing wartime agunot tragedies is vital. Learn about the urgent steps needed to safeguard the wives of soldiers in conflict.

MARCH 18, 2024ByRACHEL LEVMORE

A TRIPARTITE Agreement is signed alongside the ketubah at the 'groom's table' before a wedding ceremony.

Yad La'isha: Jerusalem center fighting trapped marriages

Also known as “The Aguna Warrior,” Yad La'isha director Pnina Omer and her Jerualem-based organization fight to free women in trapped marriages.

MARCH 11, 2023BySHARON GIVATI

Pnina Omer, director of Ohr Torah Stone’s Yad La’isha, in front of an artistic photo exhibit on the pain of being in a trapped marriage.

In Israel, a crumb of bread is valued more than a woman's life - opinion

They simply do not view the people they judge as equal before the law, in fact, the opposite: they actively discriminate against women and frequently the non-religious.

MARCH 6, 2023ByKYLIE EISMAN-LIFSCHITZ

The Great Rabbinical Court of Appeals in Jerusalem.

Change Jewish marriage methods to free agunot - opinion

Management of iggun assumes that agunah is a necessary, inevitable, unending fact of life. But iggun is not a law of math or terrestrial physics. It is literally, man-made and can and must be unmade.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022BySHULAMIT S. MAGNUS