We also looked at the cases of Israeli soldiers who had disappeared during the 1973 Yom Kippur War and, of course, at agunah cases related to the Holocaust. After 9/11, in some cases, the only ...

That made her an agunah — Hebrew for “chained woman” — putting her in the company of hundreds of other Orthodox women who cannot remarry because their husbands refuse to grant them ...

“This particular topic is very personal to me because I spent over two years as an agunah, and it was a very painful period in my life,” Adler told Brooklyn Paper. Rallies to support agunot ...

In situations like these, the unhappy wife is called an “agunah” (an anchored woman), chained to a dead marriage, perhaps to an abusive or absent husband, unable to go on with her life. If this sounds ...