‘A Radicalizing Experience’: Why the Plight of ‘Chained Women’ Needs to Concern Jews Worldwide

‘A Radicalizing Experience’: Why the Plight of ‘Chained Women’ Needs to Concern Jews Worldwide

As a social and cultural historian of the Jews, with a special interest in Jewish women, it was only natural that Shulamit Magnus be drawn to the plight of agunot – literally “chained women” who, under rabbinic law, are stuck in their marriages…

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