On International Women's Day, activists and observers lament the tight rabbinate control over marriage and divorce in Israel, with few changes in the system expected anytime soon

Krauss remembered as a 'gentle giant' who wielded his years of study and experience as pulpit rabbi and teacher of Talmud to free 'chained women,' support women's prayer groups

Ronen Vital found sitting in his car in south Tel Aviv; is still refusing to give a religious bill of divorce after 13 years, but advocates are optimistic

Activists post signs spotlighting issue of women denied a religious divorce, ahead of Fast of Esther

Novelist and journalist Taffy Brodesser-Akner will write screenplay for upcoming film about Mendel Epstein, who kidnapped, beat and tormented husbands unwilling to grant 'get'

Netherlands judiciary is the only one in the world outside of Israel that punishes husbands who refuse to give their wives a writ of divorce or 'get' — with fines and even jail

If mental health is a life-or-death issue in Jewish law (it is), then Orthodox rabbis need to free women who are kept suffering in dead marriages by get-refusers

Vicky Tzur's ex-husband filed for divorce in 2006 and left the country, leaving her unable to remarry; she won over $200,000 last year in lawsuit

A solidarity march with agunot -- women denied a divorce -- brings together 300 women to raise awareness of their plight. Here are their stories

Statements describe deaths of Jews in Holocaust collected by rabbis at end of WWII to prevent surviving spouses from becoming 'chained' and unable to remarry