Dr. Yael C.B. Machtinger is an Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellow at Bar Ilan Law School’s Rackman Center for the Advancement of Women’s Status and a Law and Society professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. She is an award-winning researcher and educator, widely published in academic and popular presses, and is working on her first book, a comparative study of Jewish divorce refusal between Toronto and New York. Contact her at yaelmachtingerphd@gmail.com.