Legislating permanent law for Agunot in Diaspora
The President of the European Conference of Rabbis, Rabbi Pinchas Goldshmidt – who is also Chief Rabbi of Moscow—requested of Dr. Rachel Levmore, director of the IYIM Agunah and Get-Refusal Prevention Project, to compose a joint letter to the chairman of the Knesset Law and Constitution Committee, MK Rabbi Gilad Kariv. The purpose of the letter is to emphasize the legislating of a permanent law for resolving cases of agunot who live in the Diaspora, as opposed to a “temporary legislation” of five years. Both Rabbi Goldshmidt and Dr. Levmore signed the well-reasoned letter and it was dispatched on the stationery of the Conference of European Rabbis with the listing of Young Israel in Israel, to MK Kariv
