JCADA and Woodside Synagogue Ahavas Torah invite the entire community to a special program…
Relieving the Tears of the Oppressed:
Halachic and Legal Avenues to Help Agunot
March 17, 2007 Doors open at 9pm;
Program begins promptly at 9:15pm
Woodside Synagogue, 9001 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring
Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz
Mora D’Asra Woodside Synagogue; Professor of Law, University of Maryland
Special Guest Speaker:
Rachel Levmore Rabbinical Court Advocate and member of the “Agunot Unit”; Directorate of the Israeli Rabbinical Courts
About Rachel Levmore: As an active Rabbinical Court Advocate since 1995, Rachel Levmore has specialized in cases of Iggun (being locked into a marriage) and Get-Refusal heard by the Israeli Rabbinical Courts. In January 2000 she became the first woman to join the Agunot Unit in the Directorate of the Israeli Rabbinical Courts. She is the Coordinator for Matters of Iggun and Get-Refusal, a joint project of the Council of Young Israel Rabbis in Israel and the Jewish Agency for Israel. Rachel is one of a team that developed a Prenuptial Agreement for the Prevention of Get-Refusal, The Agreement for Mutual Respect, which relates to problems peculiar to Israeli society while still valid for world-wide application. Rachel is a Doctoral Fellow in the Talmud Department of Bar Ilan University.
Light Refreshments will be served. Donations accepted at the door. For additional information, please email:information@wsat.org
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