Judaism and Divorce

Exorcising the Get: A Ritual of Healing

The author created a ritual to exorcise the pain she experienced when she was required to receive her get with utter passivity.

Annulment of Marriages

Rarely do we see as clearly the tension between traditional Jewish practices and secular values as in the issue of annulment.

Contemporary Issues in Jewish Divorce

Confronting the issue of agunot, or "chained" wives.

Reconstructionist Judaism Offers Egalitarian Divorce Options

In addition to the traditional get (bill of divorce) granted by the husband, Reconstructionism offers a woman-initiated get and a mutual get.

Liturgy, Ritual and Custom of Divorce

What's involved in dissolving a Jewish marriage.

Conditional Divorce

The husband may grant a conditional divorce if he expects to be in mortal danger.

History & Development of Divorce

History of Jewish divorce, Biblical, Talmudic, and modern

Is Civil Divorce Enough?

The liberal movements who have held that a civil divorce constitutes a get, or Jewish divorce, are finding that on an emotional, religious level, it's just not enough.

Rabbinic and Post-Rabbinic Divorce

Over time the rabbis increased the wife's power in a marriage, yet maintained the absolute right of the husband to grant a divorce.

Divorce in the Bible

Biblical divorce law provided some protection for women by setting limits on a man's absolute power to divorce.