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Creator:  Winograd, IsraelRequires cookie*
 Title:  Israel Winograd desertion correspondence  
 Dates:  1922-1925 
 Call No:  1992.017 
 Abstract:  The collection contains a letter of November 12, 1925, written in Yiddish, from Israel Winograd to Rabbi Sarasohn on behalf of his mother-in-law Frayde Zucker. Zucker had been abandoned by her husband, Yerahmiel Gedalyah Zucker, and Winograd had written to Rabbi Sarasohn for advice. Rabbi Gavriel Zeev Margaliyot is mentioned in the letter. Notes on the case in Yiddish are written on the back of a proclamation by the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada regarding kashruth and the "Kosher Bill", dated December 21, 1922. 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Divorce (Jewish law) 
Creator:  Agunah, Inc.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Agunah Inc. response to the Beth Din of America  
 Dates:  1998 
 Call No:  2000.018 
 Abstract:  Agunah Inc., also known as Agunah International, is an organization that provides assistance to women whose husbands refuse to grant them Jewish divorces, causing the women to become agunot (chained women) and unable to remarry according to Jewish law. The collection consists of a pamphlet entitled "Agunah Inc. Replies to the Beth Din of America," written by Susan Aranoff in response to criticism and condemnation of it by the Beth Din of America, an Orthodox rabbinic court serving the Jewish community of North America. 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Agunahs | Divorce (Jewish law) | Jewish women -- New York (State) -- New York | Jewish women -- Religious life | Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. (Jewish law) 
Creator:  Halberstam, ToviaRequires cookie*
 Title:  Tovia Halberstam Religious Broadside and Ephemera  
 Dates:  1960-1985 
 Call No:  2008.004 
 Abstract:  Collection is made up of broadsides, clippings and printed ephemera from Brooklyn, N.Y., the largest hasidic community in the world outside of Israel. Materials relate to communal issues, the Lubavitch hasidic group, Zionism, and the anti-Zionist group Neture Karta U.S.A. 
 Size:  0.5 Linear feet 
 Subjects:  Belz Hasidim -- Israel | Cemeteries -- Desecration -- Israel | Divorce (Jewish law) | Family violence -- New York (State) -- New York | Habad -- United States | Hasidim -- Israel | Hasidim -- New York (State) -- New York | Israel -- Social conditions | Jewish messianic movements | Jews -- Dietary laws | Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions | Judaism and state -- Israel | Kosher food industry -- New York (State) -- New York | Orthodox Judaism -- Israel | Orthodox Judaism -- New York (State) -- New York | Sabbath | Violence -- Religious aspects -- Judaism | Zionism -- Controversial literature