The director of Israel’s rabbinical courts and seven well-known Orthodox rabbis from the United States will participate in a conference Sunday on “approaches to deal with the agunah crisis.” The Brooklyn gathering with Rabbi Eliyahu Ben-Dahan will discuss strategies for helping observant women who are prevented from remarrying because their estranged husbands refuse to give them a Jewish divorce.
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