Lawyers as Changemakers: Addressing the Agunah Issue in U.S. Civil Practice
This webinar explored the intersection of Jewish religious laws and the American legal system in cases of gett refusal. Key topics included the First Amendment right to publicly identify gett refusers, arbitration agreements in civil and rabbinic courts, and the differing legal and rabbinic court approaches between the East and West Coasts.
USC Gould School of Law
Revisiting Classical Approaches to Resolving Agunah Cases. Rabbi Abrham Lieberman interviews Rabbi Simcha Krauss (the Av Beit Din of the International Beit Din)
Jewish Divorce & Secular Courts: Help for the Agunah
May 2022
Discussion of how the interplay between religious and secular courts is producing an evolving area of law and strategies which are benefiting women and giving hope to the agunah.
Possibilities for Using “Coercive Control” to Fight Get Abuse in the United States
April 2022
The second panel of the webinar, "Using New Criminal Laws Against Coercive Control to Combat Get Abuse: Lessons from the Field," by the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. From their website:
"In jurisdictions around the world, a new tactic has been developed in the fight against domestic violence. It aims to provide remedies not only for discrete acts of physical violence but also for patterns of conduct that aim to control a victim’s actions, limit their freedom and undermine their sense of self. A series of cases brought by agunah advocates in England have successfully invoked this new law to aid women being denied a divorce under Jewish law. This series will explore the new legal and political strategies behind this initiative and the possibilities for using similar approaches in the United States."
Myths and Facts About Getting a Get
March 2019
Myths and Facts about Jewish divorce (get) by Esther Macner (founder of Get Jewish Divorce Justice).
The Sacrifice of Yiftach's Daughter and the Agunah Today
International Agunah Day, March 2018
Agunah Support Group - Who Is Picking Up the Pieces?
October 2016
A conversation between a former agunah, a therapist, and Esther Macner, the founder of Get Jewish Divorce Justice. They discuss why we need a healing forum for former and current agunot (and for their adult children), and the use of art as a medium of transition and healing.