G.E.T (Getting Equitable Treatment)
Stanley Goodman, President
Box 131
Brooklyn, NY 11230
Telephone: 718-677-1033
Email: stanley.goodman@verizon.net
ACTIVITIES AND INFORMATION: Helps women with information and counsels on a one to one basis when going through Jewish divorce. Uses volunteer "caseworkers." Has a great deal of experience in the New York metropolitan area. Cases confidential.
ACCEPTS REFERRALS
WEBSITE: None

GET Assistance Project (New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG))
450 West Thirty Third Street
11 th Floor
New York, NY 10001
Telephone: 212-613-5000 x3 (to speak with a case handler)
Email: info@nylag.org
kssuser@nylag.org
ACTIVITIES AND INFORMATION: A not-for-profit law firm founded in 1990, NYLAG provides free civil legal assistance to victims of domestic violence and persons seeking divorce.
ACCEPTS REFERRALS
WEBSITE: www.nylag.org

KAYAMA
Dr. Isaac Skolnik
1363 Coney Island Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11230
Telephone: 800-932-8589
718-692-1876
Fax: 718-692-2774
Email: info@kayama.org
ACTIVITIES AND INFORMATION: Non-profit organization that provides advice and assistance to all Jews about giving a get. Committed to Jewish continuity and uses gittin to protect it.
ACCEPTS REFERRALS
WEBSITE: www.kayama.org

L'MAAN B'NOS YISRAEL INTERNATIONAL
Marilyn Mattie Klein
Telephone: 718-338-0833
ACTIVITIES AND INFORMATION: Helps agunot, organizes meetings for agunot
ACCEPTS REFERRALS
WEBSITE: www.agunot.com/LmaanBnosYisrael.html

ORA (The Organization For the Resolution of Agunot, Inc.)
P.O. Box 327
New York, NY 10040
USA
Telephone: 646-796-4551
Fax: 646-365-3474
Email: info@getora.com
ACTIVITIES AND INFORMATION: Goal is to help agunot (and in the event the wife refuses to accept a Get, the husband) in obtaining a halakhicly valid get. Will use educational demonstrations as a last resort. Work under strict rabbinic supervision and always attempt to speak with both sides before moving forward in any case.
ACCEPTS REFERRALS
WEBSITE: www.getora.com.

ORTHODOX CAUCUS
2520 Amsterdam Avenue, Suite 306
New York, NY 10033
Telephone: 212-960-0064
Fax: 212-960-5273
Email: info@ocweb.org
ACTIVITIES AND INFORMATION: Website contains a great deal of information on the halakhic validity and usage of the RCA halakhic pre-nuptial document. It also has a downloadable version of the pre-nup with clear instructions.
DOES NOT ACCEPT REFERRALS
WEBSITE: http://ocweb.org

CANADA:
CANADIAN COALITION OF JEWISH WOMEN FOR THE GETT
Norma Joseph, Montreal, Canada
Email: nojo@vax2.concordia.ca
Evelyn Brook, Toronto, Canada
Email: brk@allstream.net
ACTIVITIES AND INFORMATION: Has a fund to pay for the obtaining of a gett for women. Gave evidence to parliament concerning the need for a gett law; lobbied the government for the law that was passed August 1990. Promoted use of Taanit Esther as National Agunah Day. Produced a documentary "UNTYING THE BONDS-JEWISH DIVORCE" that was funded by the Canadian government and is available through the National Film Institute at Brandeis University. Has gett help-lines across Canada.
ACCEPTS REFERRALS
WEBSITE: None

ISRAEL:

CENTER FOR WOMEN'S JUSTICE
Susan Weiss, Executive Director
64 Emek Rephaim, Jerusalem
27 Lochamei Hagetaot, Haifa
Telephone: 972-2-566-4390, Jerusalem
Telephone: 972-4-855-2871, Haifa
Fax: 972-2-566-3317
Email: cwj@cwj.org.il
ACTIVITIES AND INFORMATION: The goal of the Center for Women?s Justice (CWJ) is to safeguard the basic human rights and dignity of Jewish women who appear before the rabbinic and family courts in the State of Israel. Working creatively within Jewish law and the civil legal system, CWJ is dedicated to finding a full and comprehensive answer to the challenges of Jewish women and divorce: the agunah, get refusal, and the mamzer.
WEBSITE: cwjisrael.googlepages.com

ICAR (INTERNATIONAL COALITION FOR AGUNAH RIGHTS)
Robyn Shames, Coordinator
PO. Box 68131
Jerusalem 91680 Israel
For street address, contact organization
Telephone: 02-6721401
Fax: 02-6728901
Email: icar@barak.net.il
ACTIVITIES AND INFORMATION: ICAR is a pluralistic international coalition of 24 organizations ( Crisis Center for Religious Women; Emunah; GRANIT-Association for Aid to Women Before, During and After Divorce Proceedings; Hadassah Israel; Hemdat-Public Committee for Freedom of Science, Religion & Culture in Israel; ICJW-International Council of Jewish Women; Isha L'Isha-Haifa Feminist Center; Israel Religious Action Center; IWN-Israel Women Network; Kol Ha'Isha, Kolech-Religious Women's Forum; Lev La'Am-Organization for Agunot and Women who are refused a Get; L.O-Combat Violence Against Women; Mavoi Satum; Naamat; NCJW-National Council of Jewish Women; Shatil, Sister for Women in Israel; The Conservative Movement; The Center for Women in Jewish Law at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies; The Ruth and Emanuel Rackman Center for the Advancement of Women, Bar Ilan University; Wizo; Women's League for Conservative Judaism; Yad L'Isha-the Max Morrison Legal Aid Center & Hotline; T which work to promote solutions to the problem of agunot and mesuravot get.)
ICAR organizes events, seminars, news conferences and public protests to raise public awareness, drafts and promotes legislation, and promotes solutions in accordance with religious and civil law through research, publications and education. ICAR also encourages the use of prenuptial agreements. One of the aims of ICAR is to unite and try to coordinate efforts internationally in order to avoid duplication and create a stronger force for change.
DOES NOT ACCEPT REFERRALS although some member organizations do
WEBSITE: www.aacd.org/chained.html
Educational WEBSITE in Hebrew: www.snunit.k12.il/seder/agunot

INTERNATIONAL JEWISH WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Sharon Shenhav, Advocate Director
13 Tel Hai Street
Jerusalem 92107 Israel
Fax: 972-2-5619112
E-mail: sshenhav@internet-zahav.net
ACTIVITIES AND INFORMATION: Documents the human rights violations of women in Jewish communities all over the world. With International Council of Jewish Women, establishing a central data base which will include cases of women who have been denied the right to marry and to found a family from every Jewish community with the belief that each case is a violation of a Jewish woman's human rights; gathers information, researches and publicizes the infringement of Jewish women's rights with the goal of their elimination.
WEBSITE: www.jcpa.org/jcprg3.htm

MAVOI SATUM
Rachel Azariya, Director
19 Yad Harutzim
Jerusalem 9180 Israel
Tanya Zion, Director Education Projects
Email: rachel@mavoisatum.org
Shula Wittenster, Social Work Director
Email: Shula@mavoisatum.org
Telephone: 02-671-2286
Fax: 02-671139
Email: Office@mavoisatum.org
ACTIVITIES AND INFORMATION: Emotional, legal and financial assistance; education on the issue of iggun; some lobbying.
ACCEPTS REFERRALS
WEBSITE: www.mavoisatum.org

THE ORGANIZATION FOR AGUNOT AND MESURREV GET ( Israel)
Chairperson: Daniella Valenci
WEBSITE (Under Construction): http://www.sanhedrin.co.il/kavenet/index.html

YAD L'ISHA (THE MAX MORRISON LEGAL AID SERVICE AND HOTLINE)
31 Leib Yaffe Street
Jerusalem 93390
Yad L'isha Hotline (free call within Israel) 1-800-200-380
Telephone in Jerusalem: 02-678-0876
Telephone in Tel Aviv: 03-695-1899
E-mail: yad.lisha@ohrtorahstone.org.il
legalaid@ohrtorahstone.org.il
ACTIVITIES: Offers assistance to Israeli women in legal matters pertaining to the process of obtaining a get. Clients are offered legal advice as well as representation in the Rabbinical Courts. In addition, callers to the Hotline receive free advice in matters pertaining to personal status and divorce.
ACCEPTS REFERRALS
WEBSITE: www.legalaid.org.il

UNITED KINGDOM:
AGUNAH RESEARCH UNIT
Bernard S. Jackson, Alliance Professor of Modern Jewish Studies
Humanities Lime Grove
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL
UK
E-mail: Bernard.Jackson@man.ac.uk
ACTIVITIES AND INFORMATION: Halakhic research into possible global solutions to the problem of get refusal.
DOES NOT ACCEPT REFERRALS
WEBSITE: http://www.mucjs.org/agunahunit.htm

AGUNOT CAMPAIGN
Sandra Blackman
Gloria Proops
121 Devonport
23 Southwick Street
London W2 2QH
agunot@msn.com
sandra@duvt.com
ACTIVITIES AND INFORMATION: Offers help and support and makes contact with relevant batei din; organizes demonstrations/vigils. Supports Agunah Research Unit of Professor Jackson at Manchester University.
ACCEPTS REFERRAL
WEBSITE: agunot-campaign.org.uk

AGUNOT ANONYMOUS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
2 Egerton Gardens
Hendon, London NW4
Telephone: 020-8202-5551
020-8202-5552
ACTIVITIES AND INFORMATION: A confidential support group for agunot in the UK.
WEBSITE: www.agunot-campaign.org.uk/support.htm

EUROPE:
GET HELP:
Netherland
Shifa Sjenitzer-(in New York as Jacobs)
ACTIVITIES AND INFORMATION: Agoena (agunah) support in the Netherlands.