ICAR, a coalition of 28 organizations working to promote solutions to the problem of agunot and mesoravot get(women whose husbands are unable or unwilling to grant them a Jewish divorce), in accordance with Halacha (Jewish Law) recently published a new booklet in ...
A few months ago CWJ filed a tort claim against a woman for not accepting a get from her husband. We debated long and hard before filing this lawsuit. Mostly, because we know that the problem is not mutual. Women suffer much more. Let’s face it. The halakha is gender-biased. It gives men almost unfettered ...
Ever since Att. Gitit Nachliel’s legal precedent in which the parents of a recalcitrant husband were forced to pay child support as grandparents, Mavoi Satum has been inundated with requests for similar lawsuits. Mavoi Satum, and mesorevet get “L”, have ...
The Center for Women's Justice has created a fictional character- Savta Bikorta- (Critical Grandma) to try to convey what is happening in the rabbinic courts. The stories Savta Bikorta tells are real. She is a figment of our imagination. The stories are not so easy to watch. They are not so easy for our clients either. The ...
Al-Manarah celebrated the International Day of Persons with Disabilities with a unique conference entitled ‘The Relations Between Persons with Disabilities and Their Stakeholders’. The idea for the conference came after many complaints were made to AlManarah by people with disabilities who have experienced discrimination and negative attitudes from stakeholders such as the National Insurance ...
Sponsored by the Association of Civil Rights (ACRI) in Israel, the Human Rights March will begin at 11am on Friday at Rabin Square and finish in the courtyard of the Tel Aviv Museum. Thousands of participants are expected and more than 100 ...
Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin was assassinated by a Jew 14 years ago. Could it happen again? Despite the passage of 14 years since the Rabin assassination, Yesodot’s work continues to be vital. A recent YNET Survey found that 40% of the Israeli ...
Susan Weiss, founder and executive director of the Center for Women’s Justice in Jerusalem, which is committed to advancing the rights of women to equality, dignity and justice under Jewish law, received the “Women in Law” citation by the Israel Bar Association, at ...
The announcement was made in response to a High Court petition submitted by ACRI (The Association for Civil Rights in Israel) and Physicians for Human Rights, demanding that all Israeli schoolchildren be provided with free-of-charge dental checkups, as clearly stated in the National Health ...
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