RCA Reaffirms Its Commitment To Preventing Agunah Tragedies
Convention resolution insists that no member Rabbi officiate at a wedding unless a proper prenuptial agreement on get has been executed.[read more]
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[read more] A Message to our Rabbinic Colleagues and StudentsThe past decades have seen a significant increase in the number of divorces in the Orthodox Jewish Community. In the majority of these situations the couples act in accordance with Jewish Law and provide for the proper delivery and receipt of a Get. Each year, however, there is an accumulation of additional instances in which this is not the case.[read more] Posted on 1:28PM October 08, 2004 Updated Prenuptial Agreement with instructionsDOWNLOAD Our Updated, User-friendly Prenuptial Agreement with Instructions[read more] Posted on 3:04PM October 04, 2004 Forward to the Prenuptial Agreement by Norman Lamm - President, Yeshiva UniversityThe term agunah is one which has historically been associated with those unfortunate women whose husbands had disappeared, or were missing for one or another reason, and who therefore were not free to remarry. Indeed the rabbinic literature, in the codes and responsa, as well as in the Talmud, has always been extraordinarily preoccupied with ameliorating the tragic fate of such women who find themselves indefinitely and literally "anchored" to their absent spouses.[read more] Posted on 6:58AM September 28, 2004 On the Compelling Need for an Effective Prenuptial AgreementReprinted with permission from Rabbinics Today, 2:3, December 1993-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Many of my rabbinic colleagues have told me that they are reluctant to use a prenuptial agreement related to assurance of issuance of a get upon dissolution of the marriage by civil divorce. I am deeply dismayed by this reluctance, albeit I have some understanding of why such reticence exists. Why is a prenuptial agreement necessary? [read more] Posted on 7:12AM October 05, 2004 The Modern Day Agunah: In RetrospectThe most serious challenge facing Jewish women today, is the modern day agunah, women whose marriages have failed, but who cannot obtain a get from their husband.(1) For even if their marriage is dissolved by civil authorities, under Jewish law the couple remains married and unable to enter into a new marriage, leaving married Jewish women exposed and endangered to years of anguish and blackmail.[read more] Posted on 7:14AM October 05, 2004 Resolutions of the Rabbinical Council of AmericaAdopted in June 1993In the Matter of Prenuptial Agreements I. Whereas it was clearly the desire of God that couples live together in peace and harmony, in love and devotion all of their lives, so that strong marriages could serve as the heart of a strong Jewish community; but [read more] Posted on 7:16AM October 05, 2004 The Halakhic Sources and Background of the Prenuptial, by Rabbi Mordechai WilligThe idea of a pre-nuptial agreement which encourages the parties to appear before a Bet Din in the unfortunate event of marital strain or break-up is not new. It can be traced back hundreds of years.[read more] Posted on 3:34PM October 07, 2004 A Legal Guide to the Prenuptial Agreement for Couples about to be Married by Marc Stern, Esq.It no doubt seems odd to be presented with agreements dealing with the possibility of divorce in the weeks prior to a wedding. Surely, at a time when two people are deeply in love and are planning a wedding, divorce seems totally beyond the realm of the possible. The answer lies not in any suspicion that any particular couple's marriage will end in divorce. In the Orthodox community, divorce is fortunately far less common than it is in the general community.[read more] Posted on 5:06PM October 07, 2004 THE PRENUPTIAL AGREEMENT a Husband's Assumption of ObligationI execute this document as an inducement to the marriage between myself and my wife-to-be. The obligations and conditions contained herein are executed according to all legal and halakhic requirements. I acknowledge that I have effected the above obligation by means of a kinyan (formal Jewish transaction) in an esteemed (chashuv) bet din.[read more] Posted on 5:17PM October 07, 2004 |
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