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Esther Macner: Agunah advocate promotes post-nuptials

During a recent interview at the Journal’s headquarters, Esther Macner described herself as an “Orthodox Jewish feminist, which I’ve been all my life, before the word became a label.”

Ensuring the spirit of halachic marriage

Each time we hear of yet another heart-wrenching and infuriating agunah story, we tend to point an accusing finger at the Jewish legal system that has created these circumstances, in which spiteful, angry husbands can cynically abuse the divorce laws to extort and torment their wives.

Israel Meir Kin is a threat to all Jewish women

A little over a thousand years ago, Rabbenu Gershom of Mainz, the leading scholar of Ashkenazi Jewry, enacted bold legal measures to protect Jewish women from abuse.

Opinion: Why we all need to care about Jewish divorce law

I am often asked: “Why are you so preoccupied with the problem of get refusal. Have you ever been an agunah?” The term agunah broadly refers to a Jewish woman who is “chained” or “anchored” to a dead marriage, rendering her unable to remarry, because her husband refuses to give her a Jewish bill of divorce, or get.

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