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It's been seven weeks that Orthodox women in the Hasidic community of Kiryat Yoel in New York have been on a "sex strike" in an effort to get their friend, 29-year-old Melki Berkovich, a divorce from her husband.
For four years, this is what the activity claims to the Jewish Chronicle today (Tuesday).
Malki's husband, Walbi, allegedly continues to refuse to sign the halachic documents that would complete the divorce proceedings and allow her to remarry.
Community member and social activist Adina Sess initiated what the brains call the "strike of the mikvah" - abstaining from sexual intercourse after the ritual of immersion in the water reservoir.
According to the activity, it is an attempt to draw attention to the law that obliges the woman to obtain a divorce from her husband - according to her, it keeps women trapped in unhappy and often violent marriages.
For the past seven weeks Ses, a well-known activist on Instagram, has led the fight for Berkovic, and announced the start of the strike last week.
"The goal is to stand in solidarity with my kings," she said.
"We begged for more participation in our patriarchal system - the men completely control the rabbinical courts. There is no supervision of the court, it is completely corrupt."
She added that Berkovic, averse to public demonstrations, is not involved in the protest campaign.
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Shesh said that Berkovic, who separated from her husband in 2020, has been to five different rabbinic courts and all of them have issued "meaningless" documents excommunicating the husband or "summary documents" stating that the relationship has effectively ended, but none of them have actually been enforced.
Dafna Lazar Price, CEO of the Jewish-Orthodox Feminist Alliance, opposed the protest and claimed: "We don't need the threat of women withholding sex from their husbands to attract men's attention.
The use of sex as a form of coercion is extremely problematic."
On the other hand, the American-Israeli activist Shoshana Keats Yaskol supported the minds: "Throughout the Jewish world there are thousands of women who disobey a divorce, some of them wait literally decades, many of them are blackmailed."
"The Torah has solutions but our leadership refuses to use them, preferring instead to keep women trapped, making Jewish marriage a joke.
It's absolutely tragic and an abuse of our girls," she added. "When women try to free each other by extreme means?
Well of course they're not kosher - if you don't give us power in the community, if you deny our dignity and our rights, try not to be so surprised when we take all the power we have left."
As Berkovic's campaign for freedom enters its seventh week today, Shesh remains firm: "We are ready for another seven weeks of battle.
We are not giving up."
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