In 1925, Rabbi Henkin offered a proposal to solve the agunah problem in America. This article outlines both his proposal and that of Rabbi Louis Epstein which followed shortly after Rabbi Henkin's, showing how two couragous men used rabbinic creativity to try and solve this problem that has long plagued the Jewish community.
Abel, Yehudah , The Agunah Research Unit, University of Manchester (UK) , 2006 , November
A critique of some of the detailed arguments in Za'aqat Dalot. Halakhic Solutions for the Agunot of Our Time, by Rabbi Monique Susskind Goldberg and Rabbi Diana Villa of The Centre for Women in Jewish Law, The Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, published in Jerusalem, 2006.
A critique of some of the detailed arguments in Za'aqat Dalot. Halakhic Solutions for the Agunot of Our Time, by Rabbi Monique Susskind Goldberg and Rabbi Diana Villa of The Centre for Women in Jewish Law, The Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, published in Jerusalem, 2006.
This was the initial agenda paper from which the work of the Agunah Research Unit, University of Manchester, commenced. After an Introduction stating the premises of the research, it considers the history of each of the main proposed solutions: conditional marriage, coercion and annulment. It summarises the problems of authority which such solutions encounter, especially the demand for consensus, and in its tentative conclusion outlines a possible solution based on the interaction of different remedies and the explicit statement of the authority for such interaction.
Jackson, Bernard , Agunah Research Unit, University of Manchester, 2009, July
This report is the culmination of five years of research intended to search for a "global" solution to the problem of get recalcitrance. It synthesizes and develops a substantial body of Working Papers that were published on the Agunah Research Unit's website during the course of the research.
Three top scholars and activists examine Jewish womens efforts to resolve the plight of agunot and the struggle of Orthodox feminists to reconcile this issue with their adherence to halakhic lifestyles.
AUDIO:In this practical and informative session, two prominent attorneys will discuss how the beit din and civil law intersect in divorce law. How does arbitration affect the rabbinic courts and how are decisions of the beit din played out civilly? How do the civil get laws work and what kind of protection do they afford Jewish women? Are prenuptial agreements enforceable in a civil court of law?
