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Modern pre-nups in Jewish law

nice Jewish boy, Neil Sedaka, one had a number one hit with a song about a truism: Breaking up is hard to do. Anyone who has broken up with a boyfriend or girlfriend knows this to be true — not to mention those who have had to endure a divorce. Without going into the myriad and only too well-known reasons why such separations are hard, the sad truth is: there is hard, and then there’s really hard. If you happen to be an Orthodox Jew and wish for yourself and your children to remain so, or if you happen to be an Israeli, a divorce can easily be of the really hard variety. If a husband, for example, refuses to “give” a get — essentially […]
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