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Divorce and Discovery tashlich ritual, in which attendees cast off unwanted feelings they were carrying around from their divorce. (Photo/Margot Yecies)
Posted inBay Area

Jewish divorce retreat creates room to grieve and heal at Camp Tawonga

Alix Wall by Alix Wall November 7, 2022November 9, 2022

Last weekend, Lyssa Jaye participated in a kind of tashlich ritual she’d never done before. The casting of wood chips into the Tuolumne River felt familiar. But rather than casting […]

A service conducted by Rabbi Deborah Newbrun (right) and her wife at Camp Tawonga.
(Photo/Courtesy Newbrun)
Posted inLocal Voice

How the Jewish community can do divorce better

Rabbi Deborah Newbrun by Rabbi Deborah Newbrun May 17, 2022May 18, 2022
Naomi Tucker, executive director of Shalom Bayit, applauds a new ruling regarding get (Jewish religious divorce) refusal. (Photo/Amanda Martin)
Posted inUncategorized, Local Voice

Yes, refusing to give a Jewish divorce is abuse

Naomi Tucker by Naomi Tucker April 26, 2022April 27, 2022
Stanley Mosk Courthouse in Los Angeles (Photo/Wikimedia-Visitor7 CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inNews

California ruling deemed step forward for Jewish women stuck in abusive marriages

Louis Keene by Louis Keene and Forward April 21, 2022April 21, 2022
a bald man in a black judge's robe sits in a chair
Posted inWorld

In the Netherlands, judges can fine and lock up Jewish men who refuse to give their wives a religious divorce

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA August 19, 2020
Aryeh Green near his hometown of Beit Shemesh in the center of Israel on the last day of his trek (Photo/Yonatan Green)
Posted inBooks

A life-changing hike down the spine of Israel

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn June 13, 2018
pride flag waving in the wing
Posted inJewish Life

Q&A: The attorney who practically invented gay divorce — before gay marriage was legal

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller April 27, 2018May 8, 2018
From the cover of "The Book of Separation," a new memoir by Tova Mirvis
Posted inColumns

Tales of divorce: seven years of Talmud + new Tova Mirvis memoir

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman November 2, 2017August 20, 2018
This week's Torah portion introduces the commandment to leave fallen harvest in the field to be "gleaned" by the poor, as illustrated here in "The Gleaners" by Gustave Doré from the 1865 La Sainte Bible.
Posted inColumns

What does tikkun olam have to do with divorce?

Rabbi Susan Leider by Rabbi Susan Leider September 1, 2017August 31, 2017

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