In a recent CWJ case, a divorced woman was denied the right to remarry because she has a baby and is subject to halachic rule of nursing.
News and Updates
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20/10/2015The State of Israel is actually enabling rabbinic regulations that harm women and deprive them of their rights.
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13/07/2015Says Kolech Conference participant Elana Sztokman, “The entire Israel...the entire Jewish world....needs to hear the talk Susan gave”
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02/07/2015Susan Weiss' Sisterhood blog on Israel’s State blacklist: “… there is no marriage equality in Israel from the formal,
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19/06/2015In a packed double lecture hall with more than 70 women in attendance, Center for Women’s Justice director Dr.
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20/05/2015The shocking story of “x,” a Jewish convert in Israel whose status as a Jew became the subject of unwarranted and seemingly unending interrogations by Israeli rabbinic courts 15 years after her con
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05/02/2015Israel’s Supreme Court has ordered Haifa’s high rabbinic court to provide an explanation for its refusal to continue hearing the divorce case of a woman who filed a civil damage claim against her h
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30/12/2014Jerusalem Post Oped by Susan Weiss on the Israeli Supreme Court's willingness to acknowledge jurisdiction of Special Rabbinic Courts to revoke conversions.
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08/12/2014The acclaimed Israeli movie Gett is raising new public awareness about t
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03/12/2014Israel’s current status quo of conjoined religious and civil legal systems enables violence against women and limits the rights and freedoms of women and men alike. That was the message of a prese
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