Anat Zuria's film "Sentenced to Marriage," ("Mekudeshet" in Hebrew), following the efforts of the Monica Dennis Goldberg School's Max Morrison Legal Aid Center women advocates and their fight for their clients' freedom, won the Best Documentary Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival on Sunday, July 18, 2004. More...

  Read about some exciting new developments at the Legal Aid Center and Hotline, based upon the groundbreaking precedent formerly set by its advocates.

  Yad L'isha wins appeal in the Israeli High 
Court of Justice (Bagatz) 

  Read a translation of Yad L'isha advocate Rivka Lubitsch's article, "Another Success Story from the Rabbinical Courts. Truly?", which appeared in the Israeli Hatzofeh newspaper on Friday, 15 August, 2003

  Ties that Bind: Seeking Creative Solutions to the Plight of the Aguna -- OTS Newsletter, Fall 2003 

  While the Public Sector strike paralyzes Israel, the advocates in the Monica Dennis Goldberg School's Max Morrison Legal Aid Center  worked overtime to help clients. Read about R -- whose already difficult case was compounded by court workers' sanctions -- and how her Legal Aid Advocate's compassion, wisdom and devotion saved her.

  Yad L'isha and its director Susan Weiss are featured in the March 17th Jerusalem Post article "Agunot Protest for the Right to Get a Get", by Jenny Hazan

  "Give and Take - and Finally, Get"- read the article by Yair Sheleg that appeared in Haaretz on Friday, 21 February, 2003

  The Yad L'Isha Legal Aid Center has joined forces with The Ruth and Emanuel Rackman Center for the Advancement of the Status of Women, a part of the law faculty of Bar Ilan University, to publish "HaDin VeHadayan" - the Law and it's Decisor.

  The Israeli Magazine "Eretz Acheret" asked Susan Weiss, Legal Aid Center Director, to contribute an article to their recent issue on the Israeli Rabbinate. In the article, entitled "Three Methods of Divorce: Rigid Fundamentalism, Extortion and Violence", Weiss illustrates some of the difficulties in the divorce cases she has encountered.

  Newsflash: October 2002

  The Legal Aid Center and Hotline filed two appeals in the High Rabbinical Courts.

  We have just closed a case that our Center has been working on for 4 years. The harrowing facts, in brief...

 Read the precedent-setting ruling which enables a woman to sue her recalcitrant husband for civil damages for witholding a get.

  Read a recent legal decision granting a get to a woman who had been an aguna for 10 years.

 A New Chapter of Freedom

 Legal Aid Center's Newest Toenet: Reut Giat

 The Max Morrison Legal Aid Center and Hotline recently set an important Legal Precedent, in effect opening the door for agunot to sue their husbands for damages in an Israeli civil court. Read about the ruling and its ramifications.

Susan Weiss explains the significance of the new legal precedent set by the Center, in the Viewpoint section of the March 12, 2001 Jerusalem Report. Click here to read her article, "Sue the... ".

  Naomi Ragen comments on the Taanit Esther rally on behalf of agunot in her Jerusalem Post Column of March 9, 2001.

  Read what Barbara Sofer wrote about the Max Morrison Legal Aid Center and Hotline in her March 2, 2001 Jerusalem Post column.

  A story with a happy ending? Read about what happened to a Legal Aid Center and Hotline Advocate including translation of the February 5, 2001 Maariv newspaper article.

"To Break the Chains": Read the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles article on the Mock Trial recently staged in Los Angeles by Ohr Torah Stone's Legal Aid Center and Hotline.

No Exit - by Gail Lichtman, for In Jerusalem magazine. The article details the accomplishments of our Legal Aid Center and Hotline as well as other Jerusalem-based organizations who are working to alleviate the problems faced by agunot.

  "The Happy Agunah"- Barbara Sofer, The Jerusalem Post December 24, 1999