L'Maan B'nos Yisrael International (LBYI), an organization dedicated to helping Agunot and their children, has announced a new service to the Jewish community. The organization seeks to ease the difficulties of "chained women" (Agunot), whose estranged husbands are withholding from them a Jewish divorce and thus causing them to be unable to marry.
LBYI has recently arranged for those women who have received a "ptur" - proof of receipt of a Jewish divorce - to register the document on the computers of the Rabbinical Courts of the State of Israel. The arrangement covers women all around the world, and "could prove to be invaluable," the organization states, "in case of loss or damage of the document in the future. It will serve as an undisputed record that your [divorce] has been accepted by Israel, and will benefit your children and grandchildren forever by serving as proof of their legitimate status in the Jewish community."
To facilitate the process, Rabbi Eliyahu Ben-Dahan, director of Israel's Rabbinical Courts, is currently in New York. LBYI will also be sponsoring an evening dedicated to "Agunot and their Abandoned Children: The Responsibility of Every Jew" in Kew Gardens Hills, NY, this coming Tuesday. Speakers will include Rabbi Ben-Dahan and LBYI founder and president Marilyn Mattie Klein. For information on the above gathering and on how to participate in the above new arrangement, please see "www.lbyi.org".
LBYI has recently arranged for those women who have received a "ptur" - proof of receipt of a Jewish divorce - to register the document on the computers of the Rabbinical Courts of the State of Israel. The arrangement covers women all around the world, and "could prove to be invaluable," the organization states, "in case of loss or damage of the document in the future. It will serve as an undisputed record that your [divorce] has been accepted by Israel, and will benefit your children and grandchildren forever by serving as proof of their legitimate status in the Jewish community."
To facilitate the process, Rabbi Eliyahu Ben-Dahan, director of Israel's Rabbinical Courts, is currently in New York. LBYI will also be sponsoring an evening dedicated to "Agunot and their Abandoned Children: The Responsibility of Every Jew" in Kew Gardens Hills, NY, this coming Tuesday. Speakers will include Rabbi Ben-Dahan and LBYI founder and president Marilyn Mattie Klein. For information on the above gathering and on how to participate in the above new arrangement, please see "www.lbyi.org".