Marriage process made easier for busy Technion students

Students at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology will now be able to register for marriage at Technion’s own synagogue.

By TAMARA ZIEVE
Marriage process (photo credit: REUTERS)
Marriage process
(photo credit: REUTERS)
NORTH Students at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology will no longer have to go out of their way to register at the rabbinate in order to tie the knot.
They will now be able to save both time and effort by simply strolling over to the Technion’s own synagogue to register for marriage. This is the first time this service is being provided at an academic campus.
“The idea behind the initiative is very simple, consisting mainly of accessibility to the marriage registry for the Technion population – both students and staff,” the synagogue’s Rabbi Elad Dokow explained recently. “Instead of inconveniencing them by requiring them to go to the rabbinate at their place of residence, from today they can register for marriage at the synagogue in the Technion. We are providing the service in the same way as it is provided in any other branch of the Chief Rabbinate, but in a more fitting way for the student population.”
Added Dokow, a doctor of mathematics at the institute, “I know well what the lives of the students are like. Their lives are busy and stressful. For this reason, I requested that we make their lives a little easier by giving them the option to prepare for their marriages in a more accessible and appropriate way for them.”
He said he believed the process of preparing for marriage should be an individual experience, rather than a collective one. He also noted that instead of providing separate pre-marriage guidance for the bride, the synagogue would offer joint guidance for the couple, with the aim of building a healthy marital relationship. He said the service had just gotten under way and that several couples had already signed up.
Dokow predicted that as May approached, many more couples would register ahead of the summer wedding boom.
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