"In recent decades, we have made meaningful progress in addressing cases of #getrefusal, where a husband refuses to grant his wife the #Jewish #writ of #divorce that will set her free. The time it takes for the #rabbinical courts to obligate a get has shortened dramatically, and sanctions against recalcitrant husbands are imposed more frequently. The courts have become more efficient and have refined their procedures, so that we are now able to resolve the vast majority of cases within two years.

Yet, paradoxically, even as the system has improved in handling cases of get-refusal, it has lagged in addressing the plight of “classic” agunot: women whose husbands have disappeared, fled the country, or are mentally unfit to grant a get. When there is no one to pressure, no one to sanction, the system stands nearly frozen."

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-887740

Parent company of two Italian restaurant chains files for bankruptcy

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#dining #cooking #diet #food #FineDining #Italianfinedining #bankruptcy #business #Chapter11 #courthouse #document #Italia #Italian #italiano #italy #law #legaldocument #legalsystem #Paper #Pen #selectivefocus #writ
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2246345/parent-company-of-two-italian-restaurant-chains-files-for-bankruptcy/

Wilderness Temptation
April 25, 2025

cougar having a lie-down t’back patio
love and I over coffee saying we really
want to open the door so, so quiet

rub our faces in tummy fur, both of us

setting cups down, sneak, sneak, sneak
to the squeakiest sliding door that ever

squeaked

cougar looking us in our deadpan
while we hold hands saying

uh-oh

* * *

#poem #poetry #writ

Not in a hurry wrong direction
} you see it down the aisle
} a toaster has feelings
says on the label.

repeated on instructions
} well – don’t touch it
} or it might reset and
toast no more

toaster coaster roller napkin
} absorbs drips stains
} butter melted into toaster
you didn’t follow instructions

it was cold
} now your hands are warm
} too hot to handle without
a long handled spoon

and a toaster with feelings

> was
s watching
listening to - of all things, TOTP 1995 ffs.... and a bottle or red; edited that from 2020.

#poetry
#Writng #writ
#stuff