An Orthodox Jewish woman who has been fighting for a religious divorce from her husband has finally gotten her wish.
Gital Dodelson, 25, has been granted a “get” by her ex-husband, Avrohom Meir Weiss.
Her publicist, Shira Dicker, said Wednesday that she got the surprise news from Dodelson’s mom, Saki.
“She calls, giggling, ‘Gital has her get,’ ” Dicker told The Post.
The Post broke the story of Dodelson’s divorce nightmare three months ago.
The Rutgers law student, who lives in Lakewood, NJ, had married Weiss in 2009.
They had a son, but she decided to separate from him in 2010 due to what she described as his controlling behavior.
They were legally divorced in 2012, but Weiss refused to grant her a religious divorce, known as a “get.”
That made her an agunah, or a chained woman, in the eyes of the Orthodox community, who considered her still married.
“On paper, I am a free woman,” she told The Post in November. “But this means nothing in halacha, and I’m still imprisoned by my husband to this day.”
Dodelson waged a public battle after years of failed negotiations between their ultra-Orthodox families, with Weiss reportedly demanding staggering sums of money ($350,000 and upwards).
Dodelson recalled her ex-husband’s motive in not granting her a legal Jewish divorce: “On my last mission to ask for a get, a month ago, Avrohom said, ‘I can’t give you a get — how else would I control you?’ I think that’s the key to it all. He insists the marriage isn’t over until he says it’s over,” she told The Post in November.
After The Post report, Dodelson got a wave of public support.
The Facebook group “Free Gital: Tell Avrohom Meir Weiss to Give His Wife a ‘Get’ ” was created and grew to 14,000 supporters worldwide.
Dicker could not say Wednesday why Weiss had changed his mind and now granted the religious divorce.
The Weiss family declined to comment.
Three days after The Post story first appeared, the father and uncle of her estranged husband, Rabbi Yosaif Asher Weiss and Rabbi Yisroel Weiss, were forced to resign from their lofty editor positions at Jewish publisher, ArtScroll, under intense pressure from the outraged Jewish community.
The Weiss family is part of an esteemed rabbinic family; Avrohom Meir Weiss’s great-grandfather was the great Talmudic scholar Moshe Feinstein, who ironically was a vocal champion of the rights of Jewish women to divorce.
“The world became consumed after the NY Post story,” says Dicker. “The Post did this because of her face — how amazingly human and relatable it is. It could have been just another story, but Gital became everybody’s sister, daughter and friend,” she says, adding, “It was a grassroots thing; community opinion.”
Now, Saki Dodelson has vowed to start a nonprofit helping other women to win freedom from their recalcitrant husbands. “The family isn’t just skipping into the sunset,” Dicker says. “There’s a real sense of responsibility here.”