Religion: No to Agunahs

To pious Jews for thousands of years, divorce has simply meant compliance with God's rule as laid down in His theocratic handbook, Deuteronomy (24:1): When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it cometh to pass, if she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he writeth her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house. . . . Today, as in ancient times, a good Orthodox Jew or his agent obtains a religious...

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