The rabbinical court gave Steinmetz ten days to provide a "get" or face excommunication, yet he refused and has not faced any repercussions since.
The ex-husband finally granted S. a get so that he might visit the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman - allowing S. to start the Jewish New Year off as a 'free woman.'
The BBC, following the case of Bibi Nazdana, reported that the Taliban is invalidating divorces granted by the Afghan court - forcing divorced child brides to return to their previous marital status.
Berkowitz’s estranged husband had refused to issue a Jewish divorce contract for four years.
“I found it morally wrong to use the Torah to make women suffer or for revenge. I was always sure that God never meant for it to be used that way.”
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A complaint was received by the police over the weekend over a suspected violation of visitation arrangements between an east Jerusalem couple going through divorce proceedings.
"It's unacceptable for a woman to find herself in a situation of get refusal even for a minute, let alone 6 years, as I experienced."
In the post, the 30-year-old princess employed the use of the triple talaq, an Islamic method of divorce traditionally used only by men.
The bill dictates “divorce refusal” as the situation in which a court has issued a ruling requiring the husband to give a divorce that the husband subsequently ignores.