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Unchained: A Competently-Crafted Israeli Series

Israeli women whose recalcitrant husbands refuse to grant them a divorce, or gett, are known in Hebrew as agunot. Tragically, they are figuratively chained to their husbands, unable to live normally, or restart their lives. This egregious and unjust system, presided over by Orthodox rabbis and tolerated by the Israeli government, has been in existence […]