Rabbi Simcha Krauss, ‘gentle giant’ who fought for women’s rights in Orthodoxy, dies at 85 In his later years, Krauss started a new rabbinical court in an effort to help agunot, women who could not remarry because their husbands refused to grant them a religious divorce.
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.
This document recorded Holocaust atrocities — and allowed survivors to remarry The ledger was compiled as proof that survivors’ spouses were dead, allowing them the chance to remarry under Jewish law.