Divorce

‘Years of hell’: Jewish women describe the fight to obtain a religious divorce

New documentary, Get Up: Breakthroughs in the Battle for Jewish Divorce, examines the impact of religious divorce refusal, a practice recognized in many countries as a form of domestic violence.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Caroline Maxwell
Illustration image of handcuffs on the hands of an arrested man, in Jerusalem, May 21, 2025.

Woman arrested in northern Israel over alleged false terror report, husband arrested over threats

Police said extensive checks ruled out any security-related intent on the husband’s part and raised a “clear suspicion” that the woman’s warning about an impending attack was entirely false.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
THE NUMBER of Israelis moving abroad has risen in recent years.

A temporary move abroad can carry lasting legal consequences for Israelis - interview

For families who just marked another Rosh Hashanah overseas, another year abroad does not automatically change the legal answer. But arrangements left undefined can carry consequences over time.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
(Illustrative) A man proposes to a woman on a private terrace near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, February 10, 2026

Public ring proposals could constitute Jewish marriages, creating halachic issues, rabbi warns

Beersheba Chief Rabbi Avraham Deri warned that a ring proposal before witnesses could create a halachic marriage, meaning a couple could later need a religious divorce.

|ByJAMES GENN

'Shanda': A secret of divorce when it was taboo among US Jews - review

In America, for much of the 20th century, divorce was taboo, but for Jews it was even more unacceptable.

JUNE 23, 2023ByAARON LEIBEL
US CONGRESSWOMAN Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) attends a hearing at the Capitol in Washington this past February. The book discusses a variety of secrets held by Jewish families, including Ocasio-Cortez’s downplayed Jewish connection.

Second marriage worries: Dealing with fears of remarriage after divorce

The high percentage of second-marriage divorces suggests that many people who enter a second marriage have not resolved some of the emotional issues that may have helped end their first one.

JUNE 16, 2023ByDR. MIKE GROPPER
There is less holding a second marriage together (Illustrative photo of a wedding).

New bill proposes broader sanctions on Israeli men refusing to divorce wives

Israeli law requires that a man give the divorce papers to his wife for the divorce to become valid.

JUNE 6, 2023ByELIAV BREUER
A WOMAN seeking divorce in a ‘beit din’ was the sole female in the room until the advent of ‘toanot.’ (Illustrative)

Jeffrey Epstein allegedly threatened to expose Bill Gates’ affair - report

Epstein tried to blackmail the multi-billionaire over his extramarital affair with Mila Antonova, a Russian bridge player, according to the Wall Street Journal.

MAY 23, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Jeffrey Epstein looks on during a status hearing in his sex trafficking case, in this court sketch in New York

Moving to Israel too easy for this woman - she made aliyah twice

Risa Goldstein Shapiro moved to Israel twice. Now she looks forward to seeing the next generation grow up in Israel.

MAY 12, 2023ByABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
WITH PARENTS Rosalie and Sandy Goldstein.

Yad La'isha: Jerusalem center fighting trapped marriages

Also known as “The Aguna Warrior,” Yad La'isha director Pnina Omer and her Jerualem-based organization fight to free women in trapped marriages.

MARCH 11, 2023BySHARON GIVATI
Pnina Omer, director of Ohr Torah Stone’s Yad La’isha, in front of an artistic photo exhibit on the pain of being in a trapped marriage.

In Israel, a crumb of bread is valued more than a woman's life - opinion

They simply do not view the people they judge as equal before the law, in fact, the opposite: they actively discriminate against women and frequently the non-religious.

MARCH 6, 2023ByKYLIE EISMAN-LIFSCHITZ
The Great Rabbinical Court of Appeals in Jerusalem.

This man tried to delay divorce proceedings - it cost him dearly

At the end of a drawn-out five-year process, the man who had tried to delay the proceedings had to pay over NIS 400,000.

FEBRUARY 6, 2023ByMATAN WASSERMAN
A gavel and the scales of justice.

Why I refused to get a 'get' - Jewish rabbinical divorce - opinion

Why cause me further suffering and humiliation? Why was my conduct not enough to satisfy the Rabbinate that my divorce was justified?

FEBRUARY 4, 2023ByVIVIAN BERCOVICI
WHAT IF he says to you, ‘Vivian. We can only get married under a huppa.’

Haredi woman from NY released from marriage to Lebanese Muslim husband

The woman discovered that her husband was Muslim and not Orthodox-Jewish only after she married him.

JANUARY 8, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
File photo: Divorce.