{"id":8448,"date":"2009-03-12T15:05:47","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T23:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8448"},"modified":"2009-03-12T15:05:47","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T23:05:47","slug":"divorce-protest-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8448","title":{"rendered":"Divorce Protest In Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rebecca Spence writes for the Forward<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Los Angeles — <\/span>On the day known as Ta’anit Esther — when observant Jews fast before Purim — more than 150 members of Los Angeles’s close-knit Orthodox community gathered for a protest rally outside the family home of a man they claim has refused to grant his wife a Jewish divorce, known as a get<\/em>. They chanted and prayed, and held signs that read “Stop the Abuse” and “Give Your Wife a Get<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

The hour-long demonstration, the first of its kind in L.A. since 1979, was staged in an effort to publicly humiliate Meir Kin, a member of Monsey, N.Y.’s Orthodox community who now lives here. While Kin’s defenders contend that he has granted a get<\/em>, advocates for his ex-wife, Lonna, say that it was not issued by a valid beit din<\/em>, or rabbinic court, leaving her among the ranks of the agunot<\/em>, or “chained women.”<\/p>\n

“It’s a horrible situation to leave a woman in,” said one protester, Jill Reichman. “We can’t let these men get away with it.”<\/p>\n

The plight of the agunot<\/em> has long been a thorny subject within the Orthodox community, where adherence to religious law mandates that a woman without a get<\/em> cannot remarry. Moreover, if she were to remarry, any children of that union would be considered illegitimate. There are varying reasons for a husband to refuse to grant a Jewish divorce, ranging from financial — wherein a husband will demand money in order to grant the get <\/em>— to sheer malice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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