founder and executive director of CWJ.  Susan has been actively working to find solutions for the problems of Jewish women and divorce for over 20 years, first as a private attorney, then as the founder and director of Yad L'Isha from 1997-2004, and now as the founder and executive director of CWJ.  Susan initiated the innovative tactic of filing damage cases against recalcitrant husbands in the Israeli civil courts, is an editor of The Law and its Decisor (a quarterly journal published by Bar Ilan University Law School), and has written extensively about Jewish women and divorce. Susan is an attorney with an MA in sociology and anthropology and  is currently a doctoral student at Tel Aviv University.
  

Head of CWJ Haifa office. Rivkah writes CWJ's weekly press column for nrg–maariv. She is a rabbinic pleader with 6 years experience and has an MA in the history of the Jewish people. Rivka writes and lectures extensively about feminism and religion. She believes that it is possible to reconcile feminist notions of justice with Jewish values. It is hard for her to accept the injustices done to women in the name of the Jewish religion. Rivka believes that her struggle for change is part of  tikkun olam -- making the world a better place.
 

Project development and public relations.  Yael, a founder of CWJ, is an attorney with a BA in psychology and criminology.  She feels that it is her moral obligation to work on behalf of women who have been oppressed by the religious-legal system and qualify as an attorney in order to participate  in the struggle on behalf of Jewish women. 
 

 

 

 

Legal department. Yifat is an attorney who holds an MA in law from Bar Ilan University. Yifat clerked for Judge Nili Maimon of the Jerusalem Family Court. After she sat in on a hearing in one of  CWJ's tort cases against recalcitrant husbands, Yifat decided that she wanted to join the Center.  She feels that the work she does is meaningful and important work and has significant consequences for the status of Israeli women.

 

 

 

is a renowned scholar in the area of Jewish  law and philosophy and is a senior research fellow at the Hartman Institute. Yoske teaches at the Kibbutz Hadati in Ein Tzurim. He has an MA in Jewish Philosophy and Israeli History.

works at Brooklyn Law School, where she is the Anita and Stuart Subotnick Professor of Law.  She teaches torts, legal ethics, and a course on the law of marriage.  Anita is  the editor of "Marriage Proposals," a book of essays published by NYU Press.

has broad management experience with international startup companies in operations, finance and human recourses. She has a BA in sociology and an MA in social work.

is a graduate of  Yeshivat HaKotel and Har Zion. He serves as the Dean of the Shaarei Mishpat Law College, teaches at the Hebrew University, and is the CEO of Mosaica-- Research Center for Religion, Society and State.

works for the  city of Jerusalem as the district welfare officer responsible for professional reports . She is a social worker with  an MA from Hebrew University and is an expert in the area of rehabilitation.

is the manager of Isratec, a company that provides marketing research, writing, and  strategic planning services to the high-tech industry. She has an MBA from the Kellog School of Business in marketing and decision sciences.
 

 is an industrial and organizational consultant with a PhD in psychology. Dr. Pereg has a broad academic background in the areas of psychology-- theory and practice, research and application.
 

has a B.A. in Talmud, and an MA in hermeneutics and cultural studies. Ariel wrote his PhD thesis on “The Decisions of  Rav Ovadia Yoseph in the Context of Changing Times.” Today he teaches in the program for the renewal of Judaism in the Hartman Institute and heads the "Hadarim" project.

has an MA in communications (specializing in translation) from the Hebrew University. Yehudit was the CEO of the Shalom Hartman Institute for 7 years and is now the director of publications for the Institute.

has written 5 books and is currently a bi-weekly columnist for the Jerusalem Post. She serves as the spokesperson and director of public relations for Hadassah, an Zionist Women’s Organization in the United States.

teaches in the philosophy department in Haifa University. His field of expertise are ethics, jurisprudence and modern Jewish philosophy.

 

has her undergraduate and Masters Degrees in Business Administration from NYU. She manages bonds-investment portfolios for the Jennison Company (a private American pension fund).