agunah
Noun
Meaning
agunah (plural agunahs or agunot)
A Jewish woman who is trapped in a marriage from which she cannot escape, either because her husband has disappeared or because he will not grant her a gett.
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In 1935, the RA almost adopted a groundbreaking motion: Rabbi Louis Epstein offered a solution to the agunah predicament, a clause that would have had husbands appoint wives as their proxies to issue divorce.
None of the legal solutions addresses the agunah problem in the case of a missing husband.
The term agunah is often used in such circumstances but it is not technically accurate.