#agunah

An Agunah's Story: Adina Porat

“Basically, what we are going to be doing is kidnapping a guy for a couple of hours and beating him up and torturing him and then getting him to give theget,” Rabbi Mendel Epstein told two potential clients. It was August 14, 2013, and he was sitting in his home in Lakewood, New Jersey, with a young Orthodox Jewish woman and her brother. She had sought out Epstein because she desperately wanted to divorce her husband, who was refusing to give her aget, the document that formally dissolves a marriage under Jewish law.

In Orthodox Judaism, only husbands can give gets, and while most do, those who refuse wield enormous power over their wives. Even with a civil divorce decree in hand, a woman is not divorced in the Orthodox Jewish world until her husband gives her a get. Until then, she is an agunah, a “chained” woman. If she falls in love and decides to remarry without the get, she would be considered an adulteress, and her children from that union would be shunned.

Breaking News: Halachic Prenup Backed By Major Haredi Rabbis Jew in the City was founded in order to break down stereotypes about the Orthodox community and publicize all the positive news about religious Jews that rarely makes the news. But about a year ago I realized that some of the negative ideas people have about our community aren’t based on “bad apples” or misconceptions. They’re based on real problems which WE need to fix. We can’t just make the Orthodox world LOOK good, we have to make sure the Orthodox world IS good.

Now it’s kind of hard to tackle communal-wide problems (especially when you’re trying to run and grow an organization!), but then I heard that for one of the issues which has gotten worse in the last year, there is a (nearly) foolproof solution! I am speaking about the agunah crisis...

The agunah crisis can end with us! To learn more about how we can prevent the problem of agunot going forward and the halachic prenup, visit: http://www.getora.org/the-prenup

Domestic abuse and violence warnings at the Youtube link

If any of you or anyone you know are about to or planning to get married, please please use this! There's also a postnuptial option for those already married. G-d bless you that you should all have occasion to sign this and none of you should need it <3

Community Rally for Israel Meir Kin Get-Refuser

Join in protesting the get-refusal and bigamy of Israel Meir Kin as he marries Daniela Barbosa while still refusing to issue a get and remaining halachically married to Lonna.

 Date: Thursday, March 20, 2014 • Time: 6 p.m.

Location: The Lakeside Event Center, 2620 Regatta Drive. Las Vegas, Nevada 89128

The Basic Facts

Lonna and Meir (also known as Israel Meir) Kin have been separated…

The criminal complaint against Rabbi Mendel Epstein, Rabbi Martin Wolmark, Ariel Potash, and "Yaakov." Rabbi Mendel Epstein Download Mendel Epstein, et al criminal complaint 10-10-2013 3 More Rabbi Mendel Epstein Arrest Posts: Alleged FBI Raids In Brooklyn And Monsey FBI...

I'm not typically a reader of Failed Messiah, but I went there when I saw this story in my local news. Everybody can see it in his or her local news now. Way to make OJews look good, rabbis! There will definitely be even more goyish envy of our fabulous lifestyle now.

So much pointless fuckery and so many opportunities for extortion, battery, miscellaneous other criminal behavior, and "chillul Hashem," all provided by "Hashem's law" (which can never, ever be changed) requiring women to stay married forever unless they can cajole, threaten, bribe, or horsewhip their husbands into granting a religious divorce. But Orthodox Judaism is not anti-woman in the slightest. Oh hell no! A good frum woman knows that any suffering she experiences due to fallout from Jewish law is for her own good. "It's a kapparah [atonement] for my sins," she tells herself. If she's a good religious girl.