Tag: Agunah

Malky Berkowitz, an Orthodox woman seeking a divorce, faces obstacles as her husband refuses to grant her a get.
Orthodox influencer Adina Sash, also known as Flatbush Girl, has initiated a Mikvah Strike, urging Orthodox women to withhold sex from their husbands until Malky Berkowitz receives a Jewish divorce from her husband in the Hasidic enclave of Kiryas Joel.
Orthodox women activists are planning a sex strike to protest a husband's refusal to grant a religious divorce, leaving his wife unable to remarry under Jewish law.
This text tells the story of a woman named Adina who is trapped in her marriage and unable to obtain a get, a Jewish divorce document, from her husband.
The recent New Jersey appellate court decision upheld a woman's right to use social media to mobilize social pressure in seeking a Jewish divorce when her husband refuses to grant it, protecting her freedom of speech under the First Amendment.
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, Keshet Starr, CEO of the Organization for the Resolution of Agunot (ORA), discusses her work in agunah activism.