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Jewish lawyer?s refusal to grant wife a ?get? stirs public dispute

By Alliance Alert

New York Times: "Mr. Friedman, an Orthodox Jew, finds himself scrutinized in the Jewish press, condemned by important rabbis, and attacked in a YouTube video . . . [over] Mr. Friedman?s refusal to give his wife, Tamar Epstein, 27, a Jewish decree of divorce, known as a get . . . Although the majority of men in Jewish divorces grant their wives a get with little fuss, the husbands who refuse ? it is estimated there are several hundred agunot in the United States today ? can provoke a clash between religious folkways and secular divorce law."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 05, 2011 (boomark / email).