Divorce

Ohio Rep. Miller rejects calls to leave re-election race as domestic abuse claims surface

"I have never abused our daughter," Miller said, framing the allegations as made as part of a battle for custody over their daughter.

House Republicans Hold News Conference On Efforts To Hold Attorney General Garland In Contempt Of Congress
IDF reservists

Do reserve duties break up families? The data breaking the stigma

SINGER SASSON Ifram Shaulov at the main rehearsal of the 78th anniversary Independence Day ceremony, held at Mount Herzl, Jerusalem, on April 19, 2026.

Israeli pop star Sasson Shaulov lightly wounded in car accident, MDA confirms

Illustration: Blue diamonds

The ex-wife concealed a rare blue diamond worth millions of shekels


Nechama Grief Counseling: Performing a needed service for grieving Israelis - in English

Nechama Grief Counseling’s Ruth Edel says counselors perform a much-needed service – especially now.

 NECHAMA GRIEF Counselor training session.

A Valentine’s Day gift that lasts: The case for a halachic prenup – opinion

Celebrate love this Valentine's Day by committing to mutual respect and security with a halachic prenup.

 An engaged couple show their halachic prenuptial agreement after signing it.

Childhood parental divorce linked to 61% higher stroke risk in older adults

Study finds increased stroke risk persists even after accounting for smoking, diabetes, and depression.

 Childhood parental divorce linked to 61% higher stroke risk in older adults. Illustration.

IDF soldiers’ wives at risk: The urgent case for conditional divorces

The Israel-Hamas War has increased the risk of women becoming "chained" in their marriages because they can't get a Jewish divorce.

 THE POSSIBILITY that a woman whose husband is in the IDF reserves can become ‘chained’ became an increasing problem after the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas War.

Asma al-Assad has '50/50' chance of survival due to leukemia diagnosis - report

According to the report, Asma al-Assad has been isolated and kept from others in order to prevent infections or contracting other illnesses. 

 A view of a picture of Asma, wife of Syria's Bashar al-Assad at one of the rooms in Presidential Palace known as Qasr al-Shaab "People's Palace", after rebels seized the capital and ousted Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria December 10, 2024.

'Enough is enough!': Hasidic woman publicizes divorce battle

The rabbinical court gave Steinmetz ten days to provide a "get" or face excommunication, yet he refused and has not faced any repercussions since.

Orthodox Jews of the Satmar Hasidim in the village of Kiryas Joel, New York, US, May 25, 2016

New Year and finally free: Get-refuser agrees to divorce wife to visit religious graves

The ex-husband finally granted S. a get so that he might visit the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman - allowing S. to start the Jewish New Year off as a 'free woman.'

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

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.