As I look back on the thought-provoking and insightful journey that was Season 1 of the “Jewish Divorce Talk” podcast, I am struck by the depth and breadth of the conversations we’ve had. As your host ...

A man imprisoned for refusing to grant his wife a divorce was transferred to a facility with harsher conditions, after the head of the rabbinical court asked prison officials to do so, in order to ...

A New Jersey appellate court held last week that the First Amendment protects the right of a woman, chained to a marriage due to her husband’s refusal to grant her a Jewish divorce, to disseminate ...

Divorce is an emotionally charged journey that can take a toll on all parties involved, particularly when children are caught in the crossfire. Within the Jewish community, divorce comes with its own ...

More than one year has passed since Cynthia Ohana divorced her husband, who was convicted of abusing her, but she still cannot date, remarry or move on with her life. Ephraim Ohana, a student at the ...

A wife testified Thursday that a bill would free women “trapped” in Jewish marriages, but her husband blasted it as a constitutional and religious violation. The legislation “releases captives,” said ...

Professor Deidre Butler, Carleton University, Ottawa, a member of the HBI's Academic Advisory Committee, is completing a book based on an interdisciplinary ethnographic study that seeks to understand ...

Q. I am an Orthodox Jew and my husband is a rabbi at our local Chabad. This means that our family lives and he works in our home, which has a synagogue and Torah closet. Every Friday night we have ...

An Orthodox Jewish woman was married for 20 years when her husband left her and their children. But, years later, the Union County woman still had not received a “get,” or a Jewish contract of divorce ...

The idea of the “sex strike” originates from Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, the Greek comedy where the women of Athens refrained from sleeping with their husbands in order to pressure them to end the ...