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Le Get (The Divorce), painting by Moshe Rynecki, c. 1930. Postcard illustrating a divorce procedure, Jewish Museum of Switzerland A get, ghet, [1] [2] [3] or gett (/ ɡ ɛ t /; Imperial Aramaic: גט, plural gittin גטין) is a document in Jewish religious law which effectuates a divorce between a Jewish couple.
Interfaith relationships and marriages are a contentious issue in the State of Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, with strong opposition among Israeli Jews, particularly to relationships between Jewish women and Muslim men. A 2007 survey found that over half of Israeli Jews equated intermarriage with "national treason."
After the consolidation of power under Hitler, more German men had divorced their partners than women, so the majority of intermarried relationships were between a German wife and her Jewish husband. These women had long faced social and societal pressure from their communities to divorce their husbands long before the Holocaust.
Intermarried families faced strong pressure to divorce, especially those in which the non-Jewish partner was female. [1] [2] The non-Jewish partner often faced loss of a job or property due to Aryanization. [1] From the fall of 1944, many non-Jewish partners in mixed marriages were drafted for forced labor. [1]
A man is similarly not permitted to marry before being divorced, but the ban is much less severe (because monogamy was instituted by one single overreaching authority in Europe in around the year 1000 CE, and was accepted in Europe among the , whereas Sefardic and Mizrahi (Eastern) Jewish communities did not formally accept monogamy only until ...
Forbidden relationships in Judaism (איסורי ביאה Isurey bi'ah) are intimate relationships which are forbidden by prohibitions in the Torah or rabbinical injunctions. Some of these prohibitions—those listed in Leviticus 18 , known as arayot ( Hebrew : עריות )—are considered such a serious transgression of Jewish law that one ...
A gay man survived his divorce with the help of straight guys at work. The experience revealed why his relationship failed and taught him about DEI.
A modern ketubah (Jewish wedding contract).. The Lieberman clause is a clause included in a ketubah (Hebrew: כתובה Jewish wedding document), created by and named after Talmudic scholar and Jewish Theological Seminary of America professor Saul Lieberman, that stipulates that divorce will be adjudicated by a modern bet din (rabbinic court) in order to prevent the problem of the agunah, a ...