Agunah (Jewish law)

GPTKB entity

Statements (22)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Jewish legal concept
gptkbp:addressedTo rabbinical courts
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs chained woman
gptkbp:category Jewish women
Halakhic status
Jewish marital law
gptkbp:consequence woman cannot remarry under Jewish law
gptkbp:debatedBy gptkb:Conservative_Judaism
gptkb:Reform_Judaism
Orthodox Judaism
gptkbp:describes a married Jewish woman who cannot obtain a religious divorce
gptkbp:historicalPeriod cases often arose during wars or migrations
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Agunah (Jewish law)
gptkbp:issueIn gptkb:Jewish_law_(Halakha)
gptkbp:mentionedIn gptkb:Talmud
gptkbp:modernEfforts prenuptial agreements to prevent agunah situations
gptkbp:problemWhen husband is missing or refuses to grant a get
gptkbp:relatedTo get (Jewish divorce document)
gptkbp:remedy heter meah rabbanim (permission of 100 rabbis)
gptkbp:subjectOf Jewish feminist activism
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:The_Agunah
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7