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Agunah: (lit. anchored woman”); A woman whose husband has disappeared and it is not known with certainty whether he is dead or alive; she is thus forbidden to marry unless a) the husband is located and grants her a legal divorce, or b) careful investigation by rabbinical authorities uncovers admissible evidence of his death. It can also refer to a woman whose husband refuses to give her a divorce.
The "Agunah Problem" -- a historical overview, as well as its modern-day manifestations, repercussions and attempted solutions.
When remains of missing people are never recovered
Law professor and rabbi Michael J. Broyde addresses the legal problem of determining the status of people who went missing in the 9/11 terrorist attacks and whose remains were never recovered. In particular, Broyde examines the Talmudic approach to the qu...
I know that Jewish law requires one to obtain either confirmation of death or a Jewish certificate of divorce before remarrying. What happened to the women and men who, in many cases, did not know whether or not their husband or wife was in the building a...
"Back in Morocco my husband was a taxi driver. Ten days after our marriage he traveled from one city to the next and I never heard from him again. They say he died in a crash, however, they cannot locate his body, only the wrecked car."
Excerpt of a letter from the Previous Rebbe, sent from Riga to the shochet Reb Moshe Charitonov in Cherson. It is dated 2 Av 5688 [July 19, 1928], and was published in Igros Kodesh of the Rebbe Rayatz, Vol. 2, No. 394.…My saintly paternal grandmother the ...
The answer was fast in coming. Less than an hour later the Rebbes secretary stood facing her with good news. "The Rebbe says that you should travel to Warsaw." She was overjoyed! But her smile faded as she realized that there was no more to the message. "...
The woman who approached the Rebbe was far from honest. But she needed help finding her husband.
She had been forced into marriage, enslaved, and exiled. Would she finally be allowed to start a family?
Who was Mottel Breslau, and how did he end up on the tracks out in the lands belonging to the Seminole Nation?
By the time the Tatars finished their raid, a great trail of blood and destruction would be left in their wake.
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