‘Be as passive as you can’: When my husband and I made the painful decision to divorce, the behavior of the Jerusalem religious court rabbi desecrated my faith. For women, particularly, the freedom to leave a marriage is controlled by threatening, manipulative and contemptuous officials
Source: https://www.haaretz.com
Degrading, abusive and cruel: What it's like for a Jewish woman to get divorced in Israel
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