(New York Jewish Week) — Around 1 a.m. Wednesday night, Brooklyn-based activist Adina Sash received a phone call she had long awaited: Malky Berkowitz, 29, a fellow Orthodox woman, had finally ...

As I look back on the thought-provoking and insightful journey that was Season 1 of the “Jewish Divorce Talk” podcast, I am struck by the depth and breadth of the conversations we’ve had. As your host ...

A man imprisoned for refusing to grant his wife a divorce was transferred to a facility with harsher conditions, after the head of the rabbinical court asked prison officials to do so, in order to ...

(RNS) — Women around the world who seek Jewish divorces under religious law face “significant systematic challenges that ...

Advocates for Jewish women who say their estranged husbands are abusing them by refusing to assent to a religious divorce are cheering after a New Jersey appellate court overturned a ruling against a ...

Judaism’s most holy time is now. The ten days between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur (known as the Days of Awe) is one of reflection, forgiveness, and renewal. But when you’re going through a divorce, ...

A Baltimore man whose wife?s demand for a Jewish divorce launched a city protest said “false allegations” have been made against him. “The issues are a little more complex [than not granting a get, ...

Professor Deidre Butler, Carleton University, Ottawa, a member of the HBI's Academic Advisory Committee, is completing a book based on an interdisciplinary ethnographic study that seeks to understand ...

A wife testified Thursday that a bill would free women “trapped” in Jewish marriages, but her husband blasted it as a constitutional and religious violation. The legislation “releases captives,” said ...

Q. I am an Orthodox Jew and my husband is a rabbi at our local Chabad. This means that our family lives and he works in our home, which has a synagogue and Torah closet. Every Friday night we have ...

An Orthodox Jewish woman was married for 20 years when her husband left her and their children. But, years later, the Union County woman still had not received a “get,” or a Jewish contract of divorce ...

Around 1 a.m. Wednesday night, Brooklyn-based activist Adina Sash received a phone call she had long awaited: Malky Berkowitz, 29, a fellow Orthodox woman, had finally received a “get,” or Jewish ...