Orthodox Jewish men give their wives a ‘get’ as the couple is divorcing, which seals the divorce according to religious law City Council candidate Amber Adler, lefr, with Chava Herman Sharabani, who is fighting to get a ‘get’. Photograph: Jordan and Anna Rathkopf On Route 59 in Monsey, New York, an Orthodox Jewish enclave in upstate New York, there is a large billboard that says in big block letters: “Dovid Wasserman. Give your wife a get!” A “get” is a document Orthodox Jewish men give their wi
Orthodox Jewish woman reveals her 10-YEAR struggle to divorce her husband - who refuses to grant her a separation under Jewish law despite them living apart for over a decade
Chava Herman Sharabani and Naftali Sharabani married in 2006 and had two children, but Chava says he was abusive and she left in 2010
Their civil divorce was drawn out in courts until 2017 as Naftali allegedly threatened to take the kids away from her and put her in a mental home
Though they are now divorced under US law, Naftali has refused to give Chava a get, which terminates a marriage in a rabbinical court
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(From left to right): Shira Stern, Dalia Oziel, Yael Braun, Chava Herman Sharabani, Adina Miles-Sash, and Amber Adler
Chava Herman Sharabani has been trying to obtain a get or a divorce, according to Orthodox Jewish religious law from her ex-husband, Naftali Sharabani, for 10 and a half years. The 30-year-old teacher lives in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn with her two children, and her marriage, as she describes it, was not a happy one. Herman Sharabani had been legally separated for a decade, but the get from the beth din, or the Jewish religious court, had been delayed.