Hello all!

Way back before Mrs. Oxartes & I got married (1988), I went to a lecture in Jerusalem, at the local AACI (http://www.aaci.org.il) office, by a religious woman attorney, on the legal status of marriage in Israel.  She mentioned an incident in Montreal about an orthodox couple getting a divorce.  He granted his wife a civil divorce but was blackmailing her over the get.  She didn't get mad, she got even.  She organized her friends who organized their friends, etc. until around 100 women signed a statement that they wouldn't go to the mikveh until their friend received a get.  The recalcitrant husband caved in in 5 days after his car was repeatedly vandalized, after he received threatening phone calls at all hours, after he was roughed up, etc.  Nice!  Good for her.  (I'm surprised her husband lasted a whole 5 days.)

 L'chaim!

Oxartes

"But leave the Wise to wrangle,
and with me The Quarrel of the Universe let be:     
And, in some corner of the Hubbub coucht,     
Make Game of that which makes as much of Thee."
Omar Khayyam, "The Rubaiyat