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.

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

THE NUMBER of Israelis moving abroad has risen in recent years.

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

(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


Gas prices too high? One Israeli couple is getting a divorce as a result

If you thought that the price increase only affects the pocket, think again.

 A person uses a petrol pump at a gas station as fuel prices surged in Manhattan, New York City, US, March 7, 2022.

Marriage may protect you from dementia - study

Dementia leads to a deterioration of cognitive function; in other words, it chips away at the ability to process thought. 

Marriage

Grapevine December 23, 2022: Equality is not a one-way street

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 PRESIDENT ISAAC Herzog lights Hanukkah candles in the Moroccan synagogue named for his grandfather, the late Rabbi Isaac Halevi Herzog, in Tel Aviv.

This rabbi is innovating rituals for Jews who have gotten divorced

For Lyssa Jaye, divorce was hard to cope with, so she was taking part in Divorce & Discovery: A Jewish Healing Retreat.

 Wedding bands (illustrative).

Rabbinic court approves publishing name of American-Israeli get refuser

The Rabbinic court allowed to publish the name of the husband who refuses to give his wife a divorce according to Jewish Law in order to pressure him.

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Man allegedly spreads poison around daycare run by ex-wife

The daycare owner was sent a video of her ex-husband spreading a liquid around the garden of her daycare. The plants he had poured it on later died.

 Illustrative image of a daycare.

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene's husband files for divorce after 27 years

Representative Greene has not outwardly acknowledged the divorce proceedings, though her husband requested the documents remain sealed.

US REPRESENTATIVE Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) addresses a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington last week.

Change Jewish marriage methods to free agunot - opinion

Management of iggun assumes that agunah is a necessary, inevitable, unending fact of life. But iggun is not a law of math or terrestrial physics. It is literally, man-made and can and must be unmade.

 CENTER FOR Women’s Justice convenes a private rabbinic court to annul the marriage of Israel’s longest-standing agunah, Tzvia Gorodetsky (dressed in white), in 2018.

Why did this couple divorce five days after getting married?

Husband allegedly hid thousands of shekels of stock losses from his wife, gave his parents their wedding money without asking her • he says she danced with her ex at their wedding

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Divorce rates in the Arab world are increasing, here’s why

The evolving status and self-perception of women has a lot to do with it, experts say

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