Jewish Lifecycle

Feminists renew and create ritual focused on physical transformations.

In a world where pregnancy is a choice, we should ritually acknowledge those who undertake it.

In entering into marriage, a couple takes on new responsibilities for the Jewish community and its future.

Women have been creating new rituals that use traditional images and texts to reflect their experiences of childbirth.

The viability of new Jewish rituals will ultimately be determined by their continued presence in the Jewish community.

Before the wedding, bride and groom are feted, the bride is veiled, and the groom dons a shroud-like garment.

Contemporary couples are reinterpreting an old ceremony that set the financial and logistical arrangements for an upcoming marriage

Three prenuptial marriage protection agreements have been accepted by Orthodox rabbis as fulfilling halakhah (Jewish law).

The second part of the ketubah (marriage contract) details the additional gift promised by the groom, the lien on his property, and the acquisition sealing the contract.

The traditional Aramaic text of the ketubah (marriage contract) reflects the history of Jewish marriage.