Category Archives: Agunot

Rescuing Chained Women

I remember discussing agunot eleven years ago at Aish HaTorah with Rabbi Aryeh Markman (in 2007 he described me as a "Torah weirdo" in the Jewish Journal) and he said it was just an excuse for people to bash Orthodox … Continue reading

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Highland Park, NJ – Rabbi Teitz: Rabbonim Naive, Dealing With Female Gender, And ‘Agunot’ Issues

Morris emails: "another jerk rabbi gives pro feminist lecture an agunot. may they all burn in hell. Luke, perhaps the reason why there are so many singles outhere,is because these feminists are causing fear in these men who dont want … Continue reading

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Jewish women abandoned but unable to remarry?

Bari Weiss writes in the Wall Street Journal: Susan Rosenfeld’s marriage wasn’t what you’d call romantic. She was thrown up against a wall, doused with a bucket of cold water in bed, and, toward the end, became her husband’s punching … Continue reading

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The Wrong Poster Couple

Elizabeth Berney, an attorney, posts to my site about Friday’s Wall Street Journal column on Jewish divorces and women who can’t receive one: The refusal of certain individuals to give (or accept) a “Get” (Jewish divorce) and spousal abuse are … Continue reading

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Jewish women abandoned but unable to remarry

Bari Weiss writes in the Wall Street Journal: Susan Rosenfeld’s marriage wasn’t what you’d call romantic. She was thrown up against a wall, doused with a bucket of cold water in bed, and, toward the end, became her husband’s punching … Continue reading

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