No fault divorce is only a problem, cause it’s treated as if there was fault. Where spouses get monetary gain regardless. Also, a lot of these guys were totally at fault in many cases.
It was a religious thing. Hasidic women can't initiate divorce under their religious laws, leaving a lot of women separated from abusive husbands but unable to remarry. So certain Rabbis came up with a rather... creative... solution to make the bad husbands sign the documents.
Doesn't sound like it. It's just a religious thing. If the Rabbis were feminists they could do like many other Jewish sects and allow divorce initiated by the woman.
Am I supposed to think this is a bad thing? More patriarchal bullshit that apparently requires gang activity to rectify. Ok.
I’m #TeamGang all the way.
I saw an episode an episode of Law and Order where a Hasidic Jewish woman had her husband killed because he refused to give her a divorce and the rabbis in her synogue refused to grant her divorce. Her husband was a crook who also cheated on his wife.
Their culture is so oppressive. I live very close to an ultra orthodox community and the women work their asses off w/10 kids while the men literally do nothing, they are only meant to study the Torah, that’s their job. They have their own schools & nobody speak English. Girls are not educated.
I'm Jewish
if you all looking to make Orthodox Jews look bad, look at education, eg the quality of Yeshiva education in NYC, or what happens in towns like Spring Valley where iirc, the Orthodox took over the school board and slashed funding for public schools, since their kids dont attend
Good thing that laws overrule community guidelines, and if your community is forcing you to stay married to someone you’re trying to cut from your life, doesn’t sound like a very supportive community.
It's impossible to state how dumb Judaism is, that it needs this sort of gang to break the law so that women can leave bad marriages. Put this up with eruvs.
it is impossible to state how dumb christianity is. they’ve taken every one of Jesus’s teachings and reversed it, they’re at the center of the KKK and every white american terrorist group & churches protect serial pedophiles with their congregations’ funds, what a stupid religion
Only a small sect of Jews adhere to this. The rest of us are ethno-religious Conservative or Reform Jews, so equating the entirety of a group of people to this handful is stupidity.
It depends. Having gangs like this tied to religious communities isn't a bad thing, I mean a community is a community whether it's religious or not, and this is a form of community care. Religious institutions are some of the easiest places to form community.
Eagerly trying to alienate religious people is a surefire way to kill a populous movement. If a group is doing good, what does it matter if they're religious or not? If you only want to be involved with secular groups, that's understandable, but outright dismissing religious groups is wrong.
My aunt, a modern orthodox Jew, wrote a book about this after her whacko orthodox husband abandoned his family and refused to give her a divorce as coercion to get her to move the family to Israel. In Israel he remarried and still would not give her the divorce. https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-wed-locked-agunot/
I'm thinking there should be a way to force these extremists to give their wives a divorce. Like, one that doesn't involve cattle prods. But, overall, I am more sympathetic to the women who were trapped.
I’ve never been married, but would like to volunteer for the 21st century version of this. Probably going to need it when the states start banning no-fault divorce
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"You're looking at 'em."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial,_Anger,_Acceptance
I know I’m getting old, but I’m old enough to remember when this was all over the news. It wasn’t even Obama’s first term…
I’m #TeamGang all the way.
Spoiler alert: 🚨 She had him murdered and got away with it with it 🏆 👏
if you all looking to make Orthodox Jews look bad, look at education, eg the quality of Yeshiva education in NYC, or what happens in towns like Spring Valley where iirc, the Orthodox took over the school board and slashed funding for public schools, since their kids dont attend
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https://www.thisamericanlife.org/516/stuck-in-the-middle-2014/act-two