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Illustrative: A Woman removes her wedding ring. (Dragana991/iStock)
October 15, 2024, 10:52 pm
Haifa court rules divorce refusal is a crime, sentences husband to 18 months in prison
Man is 2nd to be sentenced to prison for refusing to give his wife a ‘get,’ after trapping her in marriage since 2004; rabbinic courts in US, Israel have issued rulings against him
By Mati Wagner
Supporters of Malky Berkowitz say they are launching a “mikvah strike” — a form of protest that leverages Jewish sexual purity rituals as a pressure tactic for Malky's husband to give her a divorce. (Design by Jackie Hajdenberg. Images courtesy of Adina Sash via JTA)
March 8, 2024, 4:01 am
US Orthodox women activists pledge ‘sex strike’ in protest of religious divorce refusal
Form of protest leveraging Jewish sexual purity rituals as a pressure tactic aimed at supporting Malky Berkowitz, 29, whose husband has refused her a ‘get’ for four years
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Illustrative: A prisoner behind bars. (sakhorn38/ iStock via Getty images)
March 13, 2023, 2:28 pm
He was jailed for threats to kill his wife. A rabbinic court wants to reconcile them
David* violated restraining order, was sent to prison for 8 months while refusing to grant his wife Lital* a divorce; yet Haifa rabbinical judges suggest they seek ‘shalom bayit’
By Amy Spiro
Demonstrators protest against the Russian invasion to the Ukraine, to attend a televised video address by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky in Tel Aviv on March 20, 2022. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)
March 24, 2022, 2:05 pm
Daily Briefing March 24: Arab MKs silent on Ukraine, as refugees head to Israel
Arab affairs correspondent Aaron Boxerman on why Arab MKs spurned Zelensky, plus an Arab teen’s death; Diaspora affairs reporter Judah Ari Gross on Ukrainian ‘aliyah,’ and ‘agunot’
By ToI Staff
Ronen Vital (Courtesy/Israel rabbinical courts)
September 1, 2021, 6:58 pm
After six years on the run, Israeli man arrested over divorce refusal
Ronen Vital found sitting in his car in south Tel Aviv; is still refusing to give a religious bill of divorce after 13 years, but advocates are optimistic
By Marissa Newman
Afghan refugees' luggage sits at the Torrejon de Ardoz air base in Madrid, Spain, on August 24, 2021. (Jesus Hellin/Europa Press via Getty Images)
August 29, 2021, 6:12 am
Last Afghanistan Jew’s would-be Jewish rescuers save Afghan women soccer team
An ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn fixer and an Israeli-American businessman rescue athletes, prosecutors and judges from Taliban rule after Zebulon Simantov refuses to leave
By Ron Kampeas
Zebulon Simantov reads a prayer book before celebrating Rosh Hashanah in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 18, 2009. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images/File via JTA)
August 19, 2021, 4:06 am
Afghanistan’s last Jew still won’t leave the country (or divorce his wife)
Zebulun Simantov, 62, has refused for two decades to grant a religious divorce to his wife in Israel and could face legal repercussions if he flees to Jewish state
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustration of a wedding ring (photo credit: Shay Levy/Flash90)
From the WebMarch 6, 2021, 8:06 am
UK makes religious divorce refusal a criminal offence under domestic abuse bill
British changes to legislation mean a man who refuses a Jewish divorce will now be clearly recognized as exerting controlling and coercive behavior, UK Jewish News reports
Orly, whose personal details as an aguna, a chained woman, are listed on one of the posters plastered in south Tel Aviv as part of Yom HaAguna, February 24, 2021 (Courtesy DODO)
February 24, 2021, 4:23 pm
Tel Aviv street art aims to raise awareness of ‘chained’ women
Activists post signs spotlighting issue of women denied a religious divorce, ahead of Fast of Esther
By Jessica Steinberg
In a Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015 file photo, Rabbi Mendel Epstein, right, arrives for his trial at federal court in Trenton, New Jersey (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
September 20, 2020, 8:17 am
New film to tell story of rabbi who tortured men to force divorces
Novelist and journalist Taffy Brodesser-Akner will write screenplay for upcoming film about Mendel Epstein, who kidnapped, beat and tormented husbands unwilling to grant ‘get’
By JTA
A Dutch judge, Hendrik Steenhuis (L), presides over a hearing at the Schiphol Judicial Court complex in Badhoevedorp, March 9, 2020. (Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP via Getty Images/via JTA)
August 25, 2020, 10:47 pm
Dutch judges can sanction Jewish men who refuse to give wives religious divorce
Netherlands judiciary is the only one in the world outside of Israel that punishes husbands who refuse to give their wives a writ of divorce or ‘get’ — with fines and even jail
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Oded Guez. (Courtesy)
February 5, 2020, 2:33 pm
Infamous divorce refuser who fled Israel returns after 4 years, is arrested
Case of Oded Guez has set precedents, with state rabbinate publicizing his name to pressure him; after his 2016 escape under false identity, marriage was annulled in rare step
By Michael Bachner
Yisrael Meir Kin says he did not agree to grant his wife a religious bill of divorce after the rabbinate delayed his mother's funeral in order to pressure him into complying. (YouTube video screengrab)
August 22, 2019, 12:54 pm
Man denies he agreed to divorce wife after rabbinate delayed his mother’s burial
Yisrael Meir Kin accuses Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Lau of corruption and spreading ‘fake news’
By ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox Jews visit graves at the cemetery on the Mount of Olives, September 2012. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 20, 2019, 3:54 pm
Chief rabbi halts woman’s burial until son grants wife a divorce
After extreme sanction is announced, US-based man agrees to formally end religious marriage after over a decade
By Stuart Winer
Illustrative. (iStock)
April 4, 2019, 9:35 am
Jerusalem woman finally gets Jewish divorce after husband fired from job, jailed
With help from legal aid center, Ilana, an immigrant from India, is granted a ‘get’ after sanctions by rabbinical court
By Marcy Oster
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