Agunah Revisited: How To Avoid High Conflict Divorce

In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we revisit the topic of agunot by talking to Sarah Nissel and Yona Elishis, who run the Jewish Divorce Assistance Center of Los Angeles.

We’re also joined by Keshet Starr, CEO of Shalom Task Force. In this episode we discuss:

How do potentially amicable divorces escalate to being high-conflict?
Why does adversarial divorce seem to be increasingly common in the Jewish community?
What do experts in the area of agunot think of the related social-media movements?

Tune in to hear a conversation about the integrity of our marriages in the Jewish community.

Interview begins at 15:16.
Keshet Starr joins at 53:20.

Sarah M. Nissel is the founding Executive Director of the Jewish Divorce Assistance Center and a visiting professor of law and religion at Pepperdine Caruso school of law, where she leads the Faith & Family Mediation Clinic. A Yale and NYU Law graduate, she previously worked in white-collar and complex litigation, served at the Innocence Project, and now lives in Los Angeles with her husband and four children.

Yona Elishis is a family law mediator and Adjunct Clinical Professor at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law, where she teaches in the Faith & Family Mediation Clinic in partnership with the Jewish Divorce Assistance Center of Los Angeles (JDAC). Trained at Osgoode Hall Law School, Columbia Law School, and New York University School of Law, she previously practiced family and corporate law in Toronto and New York and now lives in Los Angeles with her husband and five children.

Keshet Starr is the CEO of Shalom Task Force, which works to combat and prevent domestic abuse in the Jewish community. Previously, she led the Organization for the Resolution of Agunot. She lives in Hillside, New Jersey, with her family.

References:

Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden

See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence by Jess Hill

Marriage Story (2019)

Gett (2014)

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