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Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel's
two chief rabbis have held a
rare meeting with a wo-
men's rights delegation
pressing for solutions to the
problem of agunot — women
who cannot get a divorce be-
cause their husbands refuse
to grant one or because the
husbands cannot be located.
After talking with the two
rabbis, members of the wo-
men's delegation said they
were heartened by the
meeting but that it repre-
sented only the beginning of
the work it will take to solve
the agunah problem.
More than 10,000 women
are in legal limbo in Israel,
where there are no civil
divorces and where the
dissolution of a marriage
must adhere to strict inter-
pretations of Jewish law.
According to these laws, a
Jewish woman cannot ob-
tain a divorce, or get,
without the permission of
her husband.
"There are greedy, vindic-
tive men who have decided
that they can withhold their
consent and blackmail their
wives," said Sharon
Shenhav, legal adviser to
Na'amat, one of the women's
groups represented at the
meeting with the chief
rabbis.
The group is part of a re-
cently formed International
Coalition for Agunah
Rights.
The coalition has declared
the Jewish year 5754 (1993-
94) as the International
Year of the Agunah, reflec-
ting an intensive effort to
reform what are perceived as
unjust and discriminatory
divorce proceedings in rab-
binical courts worldwide.
According to a publication
by the Israel Women's Net-
work, another coalition
member, "thousands of Jew-
ish women are suffering as a
result of heartless insistence
on outmoded interpretations
of halacha (Jewish law), long
drawn-out court delibera-
tions, the refusal of
husbands to grant the get
even when the court has
decreed it, and the courts'
failure to utilize halachical-
ly permitted coercion on
such 'recalcitrant'
husbands."
The members of the Israeli
coalition won an audience
with the chief rabbis follow-
ing a small demonstration
last week in front of Hechal
Shlomo, the Jerusalem

headquarters of the Chief
Rabbinate.
They had sought the
meeting since the top rab-
binic officials — Ashkenazic
Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir
Lau and Sephardic Chief
Rabbi Eliahu Bakshi-Doron
— were elected to 10-year
terms last February.
Alice Shalvi, head of the
Women's Network, was
guardedly optimistic about
the meeting with the rabbis.
She told Israel Television
the women's delegation was

Meir Lau:
Sympathetic to the problem.

"very pleased" about the
"collaboration between the
two sides — the victims, on
the one hand, and those who
can provide the solution, on
the other.
"But obviously a great
deal of work remains to be
done and we can't just go
home and sit quietly," she
said.
For his part, Rabbi Lau
said he was sympathetic to
the plight of the agunot and
hopeful that problems could
be solved following the es-
tablishment of a committee
to review the situation.
The two chief rabbis asked
the women to refrain from
holding public demonstra-
tions while the issue is being
studied. ❑

To many, Ab Cahan, the
man who built the Jewish
Daily Forwardinto the
largest and most influential
newspaper in the Jewish
world, was the symbol of the
Lower East Side in New
York City. He edited the
Forward from 1902 to 1951,
during which time the
Yiddish-language paper's
ciculation rose from 6,000 to
over 200,000.