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The women fall in love, or they decide to give a nice guy a chance. But red flags start to pop up. There’s abuse. And the women escape. A normal divorce story would end there, but they’re still trapped. They’re agunot- “chained women.” That’s because their husbands refuse to give them a religious divorce, known as a gett. The women in Getting Free are professionals, mothers, neighbors, and leaders. This is where their fight for freedom begins. In This EpisodeWhy withholding a religious divorce (gett) is abuse and a violation of Jewish lawWhat it means to be an agunah — a “chained woman”Why the agunah crisis affects women across denominations and levels of observanceHow coercive control escalates and what finally pushes women to leave Key Moments[[00:08:35] What is a gett?[[[ Learn more, access resources, and read the full transcript at https://www.internationalbeitdin.org/gettingfree/. If you or someone you know is being denied a gett, confidential support is available at https://www.internationalbeitdin.org/get-help/