Regarding your editorial, “Time To Act On Agunot” (July 3), you rightly conclude that “it is time to increase social pressure on our rabbis to find a way to make agunot a problem solved, not one that continues to stain our community.”
When interviewing candidates for the position of rabbi, synagogue boards should ask potential rabbis: “When you officiate at weddings will you insist that couples sign a halachic prenuptial agreement? What will you do to help agunot and women being denied a halachic divorce?” If the answers are unsatisfactory, the synagogue should move on to the next candidate.
Ann Arbor, Mich.
is executive director of Brandeis Hillel and the university’s senior chaplain and director of spiritual life. The views expressed in this piece are his own.
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