For years, Malky Berkowitz was denied a divorce by her husband, despite his record of abuse. So the activist Adina Sash, who on Instagram uses the handle FlatbushGirl, called a sex strike that has spread throughout the ultra-Orthodox world.
Adina Sash , seen here on February 4 in Kiryas Joel, has been at the center of protests against an ultra-Orthodox man who has refused to grant his wife a divorce.Fifty miles northwest of New York City is a town built as a kind of experiment: an attempt to insulate a religious community from the vagaries of time and assimilation.
Yet due to the unique qualities of Orthodox Jewish marriage, a man has the absolute right to refuse a divorce decree, known as arefusal has haunted the dissolution of Jewish marriages for millennia, and there is a term for a woman trapped in legal limbo:are forbidden from marrying other Jews, and the taint is passed to their children.
Since 2020, she’s been involved in Ezras Nashim, a female-staffed ambulance corps that serves the Orthodox women of Brooklyn, whose concerns over modesty led them in the past to delay seeking urgent medical care from male EMTs. Its creation in 2014 was so contentious that Hatzalah, the male-staffed Orthodox ambulance corps founded in the 1960s to serve the Yiddish-speaking community, attempted to block the service from getting its own ambulance. Sash serves as an EMT for the service.
While the truck was parked on Garfield Road, a popular gathering spot near Kiryas Joel’s most important synagogue, a crowd surrounded the truck. Luis said they were providing cover for a man who began to spray-paint one of the screens depicting Volvy’s mother, because in much of the Hasidic world, images of women are considered immodest. Eventually, under cover of the crowd, both sides of the truck were covered with black spray paint.
Once the crowd stopped chasing him, Luis called the police, who were able, with the help of the company, to locate the truck through GPS at the end of a dead-end road on the outskirts of town. On returning to Garfield Road to retrieve his dropped AirPods, however, Luis says he found himself surrounded again, the truck hemmed in on all sides by a swarming crowd.
The state of limbo left her emotionally exhausted and spiritually defeated, even after receiving a divorce in 2018 thanks to the efforts of a persistent rabbi. “I had been fighting for so long, I was overcome with emotion, and I haven’t remarried,” she told me. “I’ve lost my 30s and part of my 20s to a relationship where I suffered a lot. And I’m still impacted by it; my children are still impacted by it.
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