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Divorce Quiz

What are the details of ending a Jewish marriage?

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What are the details of ending a Jewish marriage? What contemporary concerns figure into the discussion?

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Question 1 of 10
What is a shetar piturin?
Question 2 of 10
Does Reform Judaism accept the ritual of halitzah?
Question 3 of 10
What is required to enact a Jewish divorce?
Question 4 of 10
What is the Hebrew term for a woman that cannot remarry because she doesn't have a get?
Question 5 of 10
Which of these statements about mamzerim is true?
Question 6 of 10
What is the ceremony called in which a childless widow's brother-in-law is released from his obligation to marry his late brother's wife?
Question 7 of 10
Which book of the Torah says that if a wife "fails to please [a husband] because he finds something obnoxious about her… he writes her a bill of divorce, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house"?
Question 8 of 10
Is a civil divorce accepted as fully dissolving a marriage?
Question 9 of 10
True or false: Orthodox rabbis have almost completely eradicated the agunah problem.
Question 10 of 10
True or false: The Mishnah lists a series of circumstances when a woman can ask the rabbinic court to compel her husband to perform the acts required for a divorce.
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