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ICAR Produces New Movie to Encourage Signing of PreNups

Pamela Deutsch — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:24:06 +0000

ICAR recently produced a film “Signing in Love” in order to raise awareness of prenuptial agreements to avoid get recalcitrance. The film’s purpose is to encourage couples to sign these agreements.
The film is also an additional educational tool to complement our ICAR’ source booklet. It isavailable on YouTube (link below) and has English subtitles.

Click here to view the embedded video.

ICAR publishes “Halakhic Solutions to Get Recalcitrance”

Pamela Deutsch — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:59:37 +0000

ICAR, a coalition of 28 organizations working to promote solutions to the problem of agunot and mesoravot get(women whose husbands are unable or unwilling to grant them a Jewish divorce), in accordance with Halacha (Jewish Law) recently published a new booklet in English entitled “Halakhic Solutions to Get Recaliterance”.

ICAR has initiated a Study Day throughout Israel on the subject of agunot and mesuravot get, on and there about International Agunah Day that is marked on the Fast of Esther every year. ICAR sees great importance in exposing the public to the halakhic sources that refer to the problem of the agunah and the mesurevet get and to the varied solutions that appear within these sources to this difficult problem.

In this booklet the halakhic sources are organized by topic. Within each topic the sources are cited chronologically reflecting their precedence according to the halakhic era of each source.

In addition, at the end of the booklet a is sample lesson plan, which is useful for study groups that covers a number of sources that relate to the problem of the agunah from the large variety of sources included in the booklet, as well as the various solutions that appear in the halakhic sources.

The booklet can be downloaded directly from the following link

ICAR – The International Coalition for Agunah Rights

Pamela Deutsch — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:56:17 +0000

Refusal to grant one’s wife a divorce, particularly when there is no just cause for refusing, is an act of violence and domination that causes the woman great suffering and robs her of her freedom. It was this unfortunate phenomenon that prompted the establishment of ICAR – an international coalition of Jewish organizations working to draw attention to the problem of agunot and mesuravot get^* and to promote solutions that are compatible with the Halacha (Jewish law).

The coalition thrives on the active participation of organizations concerned with women’s rights, social justice, pluralism, and education. Despite their widely varied religious affiliations and world views, these organizations are united by their shared desire to find a solution to the painful issue of agunot. Their firm view is that refusal to grant a woman a divorce is contradictory to Jewish values and highly detrimental to the woman, her children and extended family, and society in general.