New Book Reveals How Rabbis Freed Widows, Whose Husbands Were Killed On Sept. 11, To Remarry
Rabbi Yona Reiss says the Beth Din of America handled 10 cases and used DNA and circumstantial evidence to free widows to remarry.
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New Book About Post-9/11 Agunos
(Sept. 7, 2026 / JNS) A new book, which comes 25 years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in New York City, addresses the rabbinic laws about the status of wives, whose husbands were killed in the World Trade Center.An agunah is a woman who cannot remarry, either because her husband’s death has not […]
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New Book Reveals How Rabbis Freed Widows, Whose Husbands Were Killed On Sept. 11, To Remarry
NEW YORK (JNS) – A new book, which comes 25 years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in New York City, addresses the rabbinic laws about the status of wives, whose husbands were killed in the World Trade Center. An agunah is a woman who cannot remarry, either because her husband’s death has not […]
I am a proud 9/11 rabbi
On the morning of my first day of classes in my third year of rabbinical school, two Boeing 767s struck the Twin Towers. I had just come back from my year in Israel, where I lived through the terror of the Second Intifada. Now an even larger global event would come to define not just... The post I am a proud 9/11 rabbi appeared first on eJewishPhilanthropy.
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