Learn what the issues are: read articles and information about the agunah issue on this website by clicking here.
Let others know that you are concerned about the agunah issue, and help create a groundswell in your community to advocate for halakhic solutions.
Support the RCA recommendation to make a Jewish pre-nuptial agreement a requirement for every marriage. If you are getting married, use one yourself, and encourage others in your community to do the same.Help agunot make informed decisions by identifying batei din that are respectful of women and above suspicion of bias or conflict of interest.
Offer to accompany a divorcing woman to the beit din.
Be supportive of agunot in your community: invite them and their children to your Shabbat and Yom Tov table.
Encourage men from all branches of Judaism, when divorcing, to give a get.
Speak to rabbis, sisterhoods, men's clubs and other organizations in your community to ensure that synagogues and communal institutions do not welcome recalcitrant spouses.
To view a current list of seiruvim, please click here.
Organize and participate in demonstrations against recalcitrant husbands. Numbers count.
Ensure that your children's high schools have classes that educate them about meaningful and respectful relationships, problem solving, and open communication between spouses and in families.
Offer financial support to organizations that work to help agunot.
Volunteer your professional skills and talents in fields such as law, social work, journalism and public relations, to organizations that help agunot.
Encourage family/matrimonial lawyers in your community to become informed about Jewish divorce issues and to eliminate the get issue from divorce negotiations.Ask your Rabbi to:
- Make a Jewish pre-nuptial agreement a requirement for every marriage at which he officiates
- Be proactive in obtaining the get immediately after determining that reconciliation is not possible
- Educate the community about the laws and process of gittin
- Use the pulpit to promote healthy family relationships and condemn abuse
- Withhold synagogue and communal honors from recalcitrant husbands
- Include a prayer for agunot in the Shabbat service
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