Divorce

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.

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

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Divorced Afghan child brides forced to return to former husbands under Taliban rule

The BBC, following the case of Bibi Nazdana, reported that the Taliban is invalidating divorces granted by the Afghan court - forcing divorced child brides to return to their previous marital status.

An Afghan girl stands near her house that was damaged by an earthquake in Kalizei village in the Gayan district of Paktika province, Afghanistan, June 26, 2022.

New York woman initiates Orthodox ‘sex strike’ to receive her Jewish divorce

Berkowitz’s estranged husband had refused to issue a Jewish divorce contract for four years.

 Supporters of Malky Berkowitz launched a “mikvah strike” — a form of protest that leverages Jewish sexual purity rituals as a pressure tactic for Malky's husband to give her a divorce. (Design by Jackie Hajdenberg.

Freeing 'agunot': A lawyer's fight to help free Jewish women denied divorce

“I found it morally wrong to use the Torah to make women suffer or for revenge. I was always sure that God never meant for it to be used that way.”

 Shir Lavi Znati is seen addressing the Knesset.

Fine Line: Social impact with a business-oriented mindset

Tal Halamish, co-founder of Fine Line, a design agency where creativity meets purpose, describes how social issues can impact the hi-tech sector, and how humanities can come in handy in business.

 FINE LINE lecture for young designers, in collaboration with the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality.

Israel Border Police rescue two toddlers in Shuafat, east Jerusalem, over divorce dispute

A complaint was received by the police over the weekend over a suspected violation of visitation arrangements between an east Jerusalem couple going through divorce proceedings.

 Police rescue toddlers from the Shuafat camp in east Jerusalem, August 7, 2024.

Free at last! Jewish woman granted divorce via Zoom after ex refused get for 6 years

"It's unacceptable for a woman to find herself in a situation of get refusal even for a minute, let alone 6 years, as I experienced."

 A WOMAN seeking divorce in a ‘beit din’ was the sole female in the room until the advent of ‘toanot.’ (Illustrative)

'Occupied with other companions': Dubai princess dumps husband in rare public statement

In the post, the 30-year-old princess employed the use of the triple talaq, an Islamic method of divorce traditionally used only by men.

Sheikha Mahra Bint Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

Divorce refusal will only be solved if everyone does their part - opinion

The bill dictates “divorce refusal” as the situation in which a court has issued a ruling requiring the husband to give a divorce that the husband subsequently ignores. 

 A WOMAN seeking divorce in a ‘beit din’ was the sole female in the room until the advent of ‘toanot.’ (Illustrative)

Prominent US Rabbi: Sex strike against divorce refusal 'destructive'

Schachter said that Jews are obligated to make significant efforts and exert social pressure on husbands who refuse to provide a get -- a religious divorce -- to their wives, leaving them agunot.

A poster illustrating the chained marriage of Rivka, 41, who has been refused divorce by her husband for 17 years, February 25, 2021.

Orthodox women activists pledge to hold ‘sex strike’ to protest religious divorce refusal

An advocate for Jewish women whose estranged husbands are refusing to divorce them ritually, calls for post-mikvah sex to be seen as a natural site of protest.

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish family takes part in the Tashlikh ritual, to symbolically cast away sins, ahead of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, in Ashdod, Israel, October 3, 2022.