For many agunot, halachic prenups won't break their chains
By Talia Lavin November 27, 2013 2:50pm
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NEW YORK (JTA) — For years, Rachel Light felt like a hostage, worried she would be forever trapped in her marriage to Eben Light.
Even in April 2012, after Eben was arrested for allegedly threatening her and was slapped with a restraining order, Rachel was unable to get a writ of Jewish divorce, or get.
That made her an agunah — Hebrew for "chained woman" — putting her in the company of hundreds of other Orthodox women who cannot remarry because their husbands refuse to grant them divorces according to Jewish law, or halachah.
Fortunately for Rachel, who was Modern Orthodox, she and her husband had signed a halachic (Jewish ritual) prenuptial agreement. In 2013, hers was the first such prenup to be enforced in a U.S. civil court. Light obtained her get and a substantial financial settlement in Connecticut.»
For many agunot, halachic prenups won't break their chains | Jewish Telegraphic Agency
http://www.jta.org/2013/11/27/news-opinion/united-states/for-man-agunot-halachic-prenup-wnt-break-their-chains
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