A dynamic workshop presented by CWJ director Dr. Susan Weiss opened the eyes and minds of 35 family law students at Bar Ilan University to CWJ’s pioneering litigation approach to combating get refusal.
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23/02/2014Kehilat Ya’ar Ramot, a Masorti synagogue in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem, was the scene of a February 23rd lecture entitled “The Israeli Rabbinate, End of an Era?” by Dr. Susan Weiss, founder and director of the CWJ.
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21/01/2014CWJ director Dr. Susan Weiss was one of four trailblazers tapped by the AJC to write and present a paper for a high-level workshop of Jewish communal leaders on strategies for ending the monopoly of Israel’s chief rabbinate over issues of personal status such as marriage and conversion.
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19/12/2013In a 20-stop U.S. tour this winter, CWJ director Dr. Susan Weiss spoke to Jewish women’s organizations and communal groups, with the aim of raising awareness about the broad injustices that stem from the hegemony of the State-funded rabbinate in Israel.
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22/11/2013Some 150 family law attorneys learned about CWJ’s pioneering and effective strategy of civil damage claims for get refusal at a conference on family law held by the Tel Aviv Bar Association in Eilat.
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28/10/2013The issue of mamzer and how it affects the complexity of divorce in Israel was the focus of CWJ’s fourth seminar...
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09/10/2013A new profile in Tablet magazine recognizes CWJ founder and director Susan Weiss as “one woman [who] has changed the playing field...
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12/09/2013What constitutes grounds for divorce in Israel’s rabbinic courts? Are these grounds the same for men and for women? -
21/08/2013A new year brings opportunity for growth, change and regeneration.
For almost 10 years, CWJ’s trailblazing legal preced... -
11/08/2013A new and important legal precedent was set by CWJ in August 2013: a family court ruled that a petitioner may bring a da…
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