The International Rabbinic Conference on Agunot and Mesuveret Get was scheduled to take place in Jerusalem on November 7 and 8, 2006. The conference was convened by Chief Rabbi Amar and was scheduled to discuss systemic, global solutions to ending the iggun problem. Pressure from ultra Orthodox leaders caused the conference to be canceled.

Articles

• Agunah Pressure by The Jewish Week Editorial, The Jewish Week
  
  
• Agunot: Free Them Now! by Leah Aharonov
  Chief Regrets Agunot Setback by Simon Rocker and Jeff Bank, The Jewish Chronicle
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• All in the (Jewish) Family by Tamar Rotem, Haaretz
  
  
• Chief Rabbi Cancels Rabbinical Conference on Agunot ICJW Press Release, International Council of Jewish Women
  
  
• Jerusalem Torn Apart by Reva Unterman, The Jewish Advocate
  
  
• Let Injustice Prevail by Blu Greenberg, The Jewish Week
  
  
• Looking for Rabbinic Heroes by Leah Aharonov, The Jewish Ledger
  
  
• Rabbi Yosef Blau on the Canceled Conference by Elliot Resnick, The Jewish Press
  
  
• The Aguna Conference That Wasn't by Susan Weiss, The Jerusalem Post
  
  
• The First Word: Sages of Israel - Take Modernity by the Horns by Susan Weiss, The Jerusalem Post
  
  
• What are the Rabbi's Afraid of? by Haaretz Editorial, Haaretz
  
  
• Who Killed the Agunot Conference by Geoffrey Alderman, The Jewish Chronicle
  
  
• Women's Leaders Outraged as Agunot Conference Cancelled by Jacob Berkman, JTA
  
  

Letters To The Editor

• Agunah Crisis by Susan Aranoff, The Jewish Week
  
  
• Canceled Conference by Batya Levin, The Jewish Press
  
  
• Conference Cancellation: It's a Rabbinical Disgrace! by Audrey Trachtman, The Jewish Exponent
  
  
• Time For Action by Judith Usiskin, Jerusalem Post
  
  
• Where's the Outrage by Batya Levin, The Washington Jewish Week