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AN ENGAGED couple show their halachic prenuptial agreement after signing it. This document ensures that should the marriage end, neither spouse will use Jewish law to trap the other, the writer maintains.

A Valentine’s Day gift that lasts: The case for a halachic prenup

Childhood parental divorce linked to 61% higher stroke risk in older adults. Illustration.

Childhood parental divorce linked to 61% higher stroke risk in older adults

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

THE POSSIBILITY that a woman whose husband is in the IDF reserves can become ‘chained’ became an increasing problem after the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas War.

IDF soldiers’ wives at risk: The urgent case for conditional divorces

A view of a picture of Asma, wife of Syria's Bashar al-Assad at one of the rooms in Presidential Palace known as Qasr al-Shaab "People's Palace", after rebels seized the capital and ousted Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria December 10, 2024.

Asma al-Assad has '50/50' chance of survival due to leukemia diagnosis

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Truck driving around Williamsburg for get refusal

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

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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

By DVORA WAYSMAN

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

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Sheikha Mahra Bint Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

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

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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'

By MICHAEL STARR

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

By MAARIV ONLINE

Wedding rings (Illustrative)

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

By SHLOMO M. BRODY