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A Dutch judge, Hendrik Steenhuis, presides over a hearing at Schiphol Judicial Court (JCS) complex in Badhoevedorp, the Netherlands on March 9, 2020 (Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP via Getty Images)

In the Netherlands, judges can fine and lock up Jewish men who refuse to give their wives a religious divorce

Defying Western Europe’s tradition of church-state separation, the country is the only one outside of Israel with such a system.

By Cnaan Liphshiz August 19, 2020 12:32 pm

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Israeli woman granted religious divorce after 14 years of trying

Vicky Tzur had been unable to remarry under Orthodox Jewish law 2006.

June 8, 2020 3:49 pm

Israel’s chief rabbi ordered delay of woman’s burial until her son gave his wife a Jewish divorce

The man had withheld the get for a decade and remarried with an unofficial rabbinical court five years ago.

August 20, 2019 3:31 pm

Jerusalem woman finally gets a Jewish divorce after her husband is fired from job and jailed

By Marcy Oster April 3, 2019 3:42 pm

Vast majority of Modern Orthodox rabbis require a prenuptial agreement for marrying couples

By Marcy Oster March 20, 2019 12:04 pm

Supreme Court ends Israeli woman’s marriage to comatose husband after decade-long divorce

March 31, 2017 11:37 am

Haredi man whose son is withholding Jewish divorce avoids jail

January 17, 2017 4:12 pm

Israeli rabbinical court shames, excommunicates man who won’t divorce wife

February 19, 2016 12:57 pm

Adina Porat freed from ‘chained’ marriage after 8-year struggle

By Marshall Weiss January 11, 2016 3:58 pm

Will haredi Orthodox Jews embrace pre-nups that protect women from becoming agunot?

By Gabe Friedman March 26, 2015 2:45 pm

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