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- An agunah or aguna (Hebrew: עגונה \ עֲגוּנָה, aguná, plural: עגונות \ עֲגוּנוֹת‎, agunót; plural form: agunot; literally "anc****d" or "chained") is a...
- The Agunah is a 1974 English translation by Curt Leviant of the 1961 Yiddish novel Di Agune (די עגונה) by Chaim Grade. It was also published in a 1962...
- Legal responses to agunah are civil legal remedies against a spouse who refuses to cooperate in the process of granting or receiving a Jewish legal divorce...
- Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Agunah is a halachic term for a Jewish woman who is "chained" to her marriage. Aguna or agunah may also refer to: Aguna (butterfly)...
- of a Jewish woman trying to obtain a divorce from a reluctant husband. Agunah Beth din Jewish prenuptial agreement Jewish views on marriage Ketubah Lieberman...
- In 1990 Agunah Day was established by ICAR—The International Coalition for Agunah Rights—to raise public awareness of the plight of the Agunah and galvanize...
- Manchester, Co-Director of its Centre for Jewish Studies and Director of its Agunah Research Unit (2004–09). Latterly, he was (PT) Professor of Law and Jewish...
- his whereabouts were unknown for any reason, the woman was considered an agunah (literally "an anc****d woman"), and was not allowed to remarry; in traditional...
- In 1935, for example, the RA shelved its proposal for a solution to the agunah predicament. "Conservative Judaism" was adopted as an exclusive label by...
- husband is missing without sufficient knowledge that he died, called an agunah, is still married, and therefore cannot remarry. Under Orthodox law, children...