"You are hereby betrothed to me with this ring on the condition that I'm not missing in action."  This wording is not the most romantic but it could prevent aginut.  Rivkah Lubitch thinks about Karnit and she's convinced that there's a "prophylactic solution." She writes: "If the solution doesn't come from the rabbis, the community must rise to the occasion and take action." Read More

Her husband was physically abusive, joined a cult, abandoned the family, and evaded the Beit Din.  Even after tracking him down with a private investigator, and leading him away in handcuffs, the judges decided to surrender to blackmail and free him.  One of the judges was fed up with the case and screamed at the woman.  And they refused to impose the penalties on the husband that are authorized by law.  And the Beit Din?  It's pulling the wool over our eyes. Read More

"We knew all along that the rabbinic judges could not see beyond the noses on their faces out of fear for the 'purity of the Jewish nation.'  Too bad everyone else figured this out only after the Rabbinic Courts stepped on Rav Druckman's toes."  Rivkah Lubitch explains how women have joined forces in the battle over conversion. Read More

The Rabbinical Courts have little respect for what the Ombudsman says because the rabbinic judges sit on their high thrones.  There’s little respect for the secular, and there won’t ever be, because the secular are the root of all the evil.  There’s little respect for converts, and there won’t ever be, because the rabbis need to insure the purity of the Jewish seed.  There’s little respect for women, because that’s just the way it is.  For Rivkah Lubitch, due process in the Beit Din has never seemed so far away. Read More

After the ruling of the Supreme Rabbinic Court, it’s enough to claim that your spouse was converted by Rav Druckman—and poof!—your marriage is null and void, and all of the assets are yours.  Luckily, there’s the High Court of Justice to straighten things out a little. Read More

On the way out, after the get ceremony was completed, the rabbinic judge asked A. whether she kept Shabbat and whether she went to the mikvah.  She answered honestly, and in turn received a ruling putting her status as a Jew, as well as the status of her 3 kids, in question.  Rivkah Lubitch writes about the net that haredi rabbis have spread out to try to catch converts from "infiltrating" into the Jewish nation. Read More

Rochella is a haredi woman who has been married for 4 and a half years and has a child.  She’s been an agunah for almost 2 of those years.  Her husband disappeared to Borough Park, or thereabouts, when Rochella refused the apartment to him.  She’s stayed in Israel waiting for a get and searching for any information that will help track down her husband. Read More