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 Truck driving around Williamsburg for get refusal

'Enough is enough!': Hasidic woman publicizes divorce battle

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

New Year and finally free: Get-refuser agrees to divorce to visit religious graves

An Afghan girl stands near her house that was damaged by an earthquake in Kalizei village in the Gayan district of Paktika province, Afghanistan, June 26, 2022.

Divorced Afghan child brides forced to return to former husbands under Taliban rule

 Supporters of Malky Berkowitz launched 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.

New York woman initiates Orthodox ‘sex strike’ to receive her Jewish divorce

By Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA
 Shir Lavi Znati is seen addressing the Knesset.

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

 FINE LINE lecture for young designers, in collaboration with the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality.

Fine Line: Social impact with a business-oriented mindset

 Police rescue toddlers from the Shuafat camp in east Jerusalem, August 7, 2024.

Israel Border Police rescue two toddlers in Shuafat, east Jerusalem, over divorce dispute

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

Free at last! Jewish woman granted divorce via Zoom after ex refused get for 6 years

Sheikha Mahra Bint Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

'Occupied with other companions': Dubai princess dumps husband in rare public statement

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

Divorce refusal will only be solved if everyone does their part

By Ali Zak
A poster illustrating the chained marriage of Rivka, 41, who has been refused divorce by her husband for 17 years, February 25, 2021.

Prominent US Rabbi: Sex strike against divorce refusal 'destructive'

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish family takes part in the Tashlikh ritual, to symbolically cast away sins, ahead of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, in Ashdod, Israel, October 3, 2022.

Orthodox women pledge to hold ‘sex strike’ to protest religious divorce refusal

By Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA
 An illustrative image of a synagogue.

Woman claims her wedding was invalid for being in a synagogue

 Wedding rings (Illustrative)

Jewish law tells us IDF soldiers must grant divorce before going to war

By SHLOMO M. BRODY
 A PHOTO which expresses the pain, fear and frustration of the plight of agunot is part of a photography exhibit of Yad La’isha.

Chief Rabbi David Lau establishes special rabbinical court to support agunot affected by war

 Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie: Hollywood is not a healthy place

By Walla!
 VHarasymiv

Bride's provocative wedding song leads to immediate divorce

By Walla!
 Two squirrels kissing

This couple is getting a divorce for a very strange reason

By MAARIV