Modern Orthodox Group Praises Court Decision to Fire Man Who Won’t Give a Get
Erin Ben-Moche
February 12, 2019
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Till get do us part: Israel Meir Kin’s Las Vegas wedding
Ryan Torok
March 27, 2014
Hurrying by the parking lot at the Lakeside Event Center in Las Vegas, Israel Meir Kin and his new wife, Daniela Barbosa, avoided eye contact with a group of about 30 demonstrators who had been waiting for them.
Agunah crowd shouldn’t target families
Jewish Journal
December 16, 2013
The preeminent sacred cow to many Jews is compassion for agunot (“chained” women whose husbands withhold a Jewish bill of divorce, or “Get”). But enough already: the Internet crowd attacking Avrohom Meir Weiss in his divorce from Gital Dodelson is becoming as heartless and halachically problematic as Weiss himself.
Rabbis arrested in kidnapping, beating of recalcitrant husbands
Jewish Journal
October 10, 2013
Two Orthodox rabbis and two others were arrested for allegedly kidnapping and beating men in order to force them to grant their wives religious Jewish divorces.
At long last, lasting love
Elyse Glickman
September 18, 2013
Encino lawyer Jeremy Karpel’s home has an art gallery feel to it, with an eclectically decorated living room spilling out into an elegantly landscaped yard. During one recent weekend, it was the perfect backdrop for a party commemorating his grandparents’ anniversary, filled with the sounds of big band-era greats, as spun by a 9-year-old DJ.
High Holy Days: Sharing the love, handling the holidays
Jewish Journal
September 3, 2013
Every day in my office, I see parents, embittered by divorce and so grateful to finally be physically and legally apart from a partner they once loved and now hate, struggling to co-parent and jointly make decisions about their children.
Community Rallies for Woman’s Divorce, UCLA Acquires Jewish Artifacts
Jewish Journal
March 11, 2009
Chanting “Stop Abuse” and “Free Your Wife,” 200 people rallied on the eve of Purim in front of the Fairfax-area home of a man who refuses to grant his wife a Jewish divorce.
At-risk youth; Much more Mathout; Donkeys vs. Elephants — the beef goes on
Jewish Journal
October 12, 2006
Letters; Custody Battle; Maher Hathout; At-Risk Youth; Politicized Reports; RJC Ads; Faith and Season.\n\n\n\n\n\n
Modern Orthodoxy’s Marriage Crisis
Alana Newhouse
June 8, 2006
Hard-to-marry-off children have been worrying parents since Genesis, when Leah, her eyes tender from the sadness of being unwanted, took part in a hoax to trick Jacob — her younger, prettier sister\’s suitor — into marrying her.
A Holiday Redemption
David Finnigan
December 23, 2004
I woke up Christmas Day morning with no tree, toys or eggnog, and I understood how Jewish children could feel left out on Christmas mornings as non-Jewish neighbor kids ride new bikes and try out other presents. Like Jewish kids, I had no gifts that morning.
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