Divorce
A Year of Fighting for Agunot
As I lay in bed, after talking to an international committee of organizations that advocate on behalf of agunot (Jewish ...
International Agunah Day: Taking Matters into Our Own Hands
The agunah problem has not gone away. Every so often it rears its ugly head and we witness yet another ...
Voting with Our Feet: Heeding the Call of ORA’s Rabbi Jeremy Stern
Rabbi Jeremy Stern, who serves as the Executive Director of the Organization for the Resolution of Agunot (ORA) recently penned ...
How to Get a Jewish Divorce (Video)
An overview of Jewish divorce, produced by our friends at G-dcast.
What Happens When Our Heroines Fail Us?
One of the great disappointments of this summer has been finding out, with the publication of Harper Lee’s Go Set ...
Appointing Judges Shouldn’t Be Taken Lightly
The Torah portion called Shoftim, the Hebrew word for judges, is always read at the beginning of the new month ...
Prime-Time Drama
This post has been translated from Hebrew to English by Bracha Jaffe.Shabbat afternoon between the afternoon and evening prayers is ...
Signing in Solidarity
This piece was submitted on Friday, January 31, 2014. The event took place on Sunday, January 26.—When a couple gets ...
Solving the agunah problem means finding the right address
In the wake of the current discussion of the Gital Dodelson case (about which I know nothing more than what ...
Mock Jewish Divorce
It’s become almost a cliche program at American Jewish summer camps. The mock Jewish wedding teaches kids, through an interactive ...