Malky Berkowitz waited four years for her husband to grant her a 'gett' and free her from her marriage;  Orthodox Jewish women activists withheld sex from their husbands in order to pressure him to free her from being an agunah, or chained wife

The Shem Tov Bible, purchased in 1994 by the banker Jacob (Jacqui) Safra for $825,000, was sold at an auction at Sotheby's, after a bidding war between three anonymous buyers