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Unchained
Dayton-area woman receives Jewish divorce after 8 years.
Marshall Weiss | Dayton Jewish Observer
Dayton, Ohio
A
fter more than eight years of
waiting, Adina Porat finally
received her get — a Jewish bill
of divorce — in a ceremony with the Israeli
Rabbinate in Jerusalem on Jan. 7.
Kettering, Ohio, resident Dovid Porat,
known locally by the name Eli Shur, signed
the get on Dec. 30, two months after the
New York-based Organization for the
Resolution of Agunot (ORA) launched an
unprecedented social media campaign and
held a rally near Shur’s home to pressure
him to give the get.
More than 80 demonstrators — primarily
from Orthodox communities across Ohio
and Michigan — showed up for the Nov. 8
rally near Shur’s home in Kettering. Rabbi
Yechiel Morris of Young Israel of Southfield
brought 17 protesters. Shur and his wife
taught at Akiva Hebrew Day School in
Southfield in the late 1990s, Morris said.
“I spoke to the congregation about this
last Shabbos,” Morris said, “about how emo-
tions and feelings can cloud our thoughts or
decisions. The goal is not to harm or hurt
anyone, but to do the right thing. We are
extremely grateful that [Adina finally got
her get].
“I also spoke of another lesson, about the
impact we can make when we are proactive,
when we actually do something and take
the intitiative — and can see some change
in the end. Those who went to Ohio have
said they are grateful, in a short period of
time, for the impact they could make.”
Agunah, Hebrew for chained, refers to
a woman in the Orthodox world whose
husband refuses to provide her with a get,
a religious bill of divorce. Within Orthodox
Halachah (Jewish law), a divorce isn’t final
About 80 protesters, including 17 from Metro Detroit, rallied
Nov. 8, 2015, in Ketter ing, Ohio, to pressure a husband to give
his wife a get, or Jewish divorce.
until a husband provides his wife with a
get. Without one, an agunah is unable to
remarry.
Though ORA stages rallies and social
media campaigns when behind-the-scenes
negotiations don’t convince husbands to
sign a get, ORA Executive Director Rabbi
Jeremy Stern says this is the first time ORA
produced a video about the predicament of
an agunah as part of its strategy.
“The video went viral on Facebook and
YouTube, followed up by the rally and all
the publicity of the rally — all of that pres-
sure led to the issuance of the get,” says
Stern, who adds the video was viewed more
than 68,000 times.
“Her [Porat’s] attorney in Israel has been
involved in working out a final settlement
where we took down the video and pulled
the website, and we’ve promised not to
rally against him,” Stern says. “And, of
course, we put in the get that we dropped
all claims, one against the other, and the get
was issued through the Chicago Rabbinical
Council.”
Stern says the Chicago Rabbinical
Council then sent the get to the Israeli
Rabbinate via UPS, which received the
document in Jerusalem on Jan. 6.
According to ORA, Shur and Porat were
married in Israel in 1990. He left her and
their children in 2007 and refused to pro-
vide her with a get. He departed Israel for
the United States a year later, arriving in
Dayton in 2010. The Israeli Rabbinate ruled
in 2009 that Shur was required to give his
wife a get.
Stern says the Porat agunah case is the
253rd ORA has resolved since its founding
in 2002.
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Michelle Tedford contributed to this story.
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