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Susan Aranoff

Dec 11, 2013, 8:48 PM

Original Women of the Wall (OWOW) – A cord of three strands is not easily broken

A cord of three strands is not easily broken. Ecclesiastes 4:12 Three times constitutes a chazakah, an established claim. Three times the rights of the Original Women of the Wall(OWOW) were adjudicated in the courts of Israel, and three times...

Jul 3, 2013, 6:53 AM

Reviving the Rackman Agunah Beit Din

On June 24th in New York City, an “agunah summit” was jointly convened by the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance(JOFA) and the New York University Center for Law and Jewish Civilization. As the day wore on, it seemed that little...

May 7, 2013, 3:54 PM

Sharing the sacred Kotel space

We – myself and Rivka Haut – are among the founding members of the Women of the Wall, now referred to within the group as “The Mothers.” After WOW began, women, including ourselves, who were actively dealing with agunot...

About Me

Susan Aranoff is a founding member of the International Committee for Women of the Wall and of AGUNAH International; She is a professor of economics at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY; She and Rivka Haut have an upcoming book that chronicles their decades of work on behalf of agunot