ketubot

/May it be your will to free the captive wives of Israel/When love and sanctity have fled the home,/But their husbands bind them in the tatters of ketubot.

International Coalition for Agunah Rights (ICAR). 2009

Some of the oldest Jewish documents preserved to this day are ketubot (marriage contracts) and get (decrees of divorce.)

Why Most Americans Support Husband Notification 2005

Alpert has attended weddings, bris and baby naming ceremonies for former USYers, and has signed dozens of ketubot.

Articles 2010

Most well known for her ketubot (Jewish marriage contracts), Shain Schloss also finds inspiration in historic Jewish names, and has created a series, "The Names Project," that includes Esther and Mordechai.

Jewish Exponent News 2009

A small, moving series of Torah mantles tells the story of Smollan's own family exodus from Lithuania to South Africa; these objects are artificially aged and stained and incorporate fragments of family travel documents and ketubot (Jewish marriage contracts), photographs, and other memorabilia.

unknown title 2009

A small, moving series of Torah mantles tells the story of Smollan's own family exodus from Lithuania to South Africa; these objects are artificially aged and stained and incorporate fragments of family travel documents and ketubot (Jewish marriage contracts), photographs, and other memorabilia.

unknown title 2009

Anyway, I believe we've narrowed our ketubah search down to two beautiful ketubot.

Weddingbee 2009

This one is a boy who discovers in himself a genius for making ketubot, beautifully decorated Jewish marriage contracts that record not only the bare fact of the union of two people, but summon the very souls of the couple who commit to each other in this way; a boy who becomes a man tormented by that peculiar genius and the expectations it creates, and by his creative gift as a great painter whose subject matter is the ecstatic physical union of human bodies in the sexual act.

Peter Clothier: The Marriage Artist Peter Clothier 2010

This one is a boy who discovers in himself a genius for making ketubot, beautifully decorated Jewish marriage contracts that record not only the bare fact of the union of two people, but summon the very souls of the couple who commit to each other in this way; a boy who becomes a man tormented by that peculiar genius and the expectations it creates, and by his creative gift as a great painter whose subject matter is the ecstatic physical union of human bodies in the sexual act.

Peter Clothier: The Marriage Artist Peter Clothier 2010

This one is a boy who discovers in himself a genius for making ketubot, beautifully decorated Jewish marriage contracts that record not only the bare fact of the union of two people, but summon the very souls of the couple who commit to each other in this way; a boy who becomes a man tormented by that peculiar genius and the expectations it creates, and by his creative gift as a great painter whose subject matter is the ecstatic physical union of human bodies in the sexual act.

Peter Clothier: The Marriage Artist Peter Clothier 2010