An advocacy group for agunot is declaring the current Jewish month “Freedom for Agunot Month.” The Brooklyn-based L’maan B’nos Yisrael International is coordinating special days throughout the month of Nisan in which husbands who have refused their wives a get, or Jewish divorce, can do the proceedings free of charge at numerous rabbinical courts.
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