The scandal of the chained wives trapped by Jewish courts...

Imagine having to go through the trauma of an acrimonious divorce knowing all the way through the process that the community you live in will still consider you to be married. 

When Miriam Saleh decided her marriage to her husband was no longer working she soon discovered that getting a divorce in Britain's law courts would be the least of her worries. 

As a devout Orthodox Jew from a close-knit community in north London, the only way she would really be free to get on with her life would be if her husband granted her a get – a Jewish divorce document authenticated by a rabbi and given by a husband to his wife releasing her from their marriage. More...

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