CWJ is dedicated to providing solutions for Jewish women going through divorce: get refusal, the agunah, and the mamzer. Our goal is to ensure that Jewish marriages are just marriages.CWJ offers legal consultation, including full legal services in the Family courts, Supreme Court, or Rabbinic Court, Labor Courts for select clients. This includes drafting of all legal documents and representation in the relevant court. The following are examples of types of cases that CWJ takes: - Damage suits against husbands, or ex-husbands, for get refusal
- Petitions to dismiss draconian divorce agreements
- Motions to dismiss discriminatory Rabbinic Court tenders
- Petitions to the Supreme Court sitting as the High Court of Justice
(bagat'z) to dismiss rabbinic court rulings (if the rabbinic court
exceeded its jurisdiction or violated basic rules of procedure)
- Filing amicus curie (friends of the court) pleadings in
support of your petitions if your individual case has ramification on
the status of Jewish women (in the family courts, rabbinic courts, and
the Supreme Court)
How can we help you?CWJ can help you before you receive your get under the following circumstances: - If you are an agunah or victim of get-refusal or get-abuse
- If you are “stuck” in litigation in the rabbinic court with no end in sight
- If your husband is demanding that you give up your rights under the law in exchange for the get
- If the rabbinic court is putting pressure on you to accede to your husband’s demands in exchange for the get
- If you want to sue your husband in the family court for the pain and suffering that you encountered because he refused to give you a get
- If you or your child has been “blacklisted” as unable to marry (mamzer)
- If you feel that the rabbinic court is not handling your case justly.
CWJ can help you after you receive your get under the following circumstances:
- If you have waived your legal rights (to marital property, custody, or child support) in exchange for the get
- If you want to sue your ex-husband for the years that he prevented you from remarrying, bearing children, or entering into an intimate relationship
- If you are unable to marry your chose partner because the rabbinic court has deemed that you are prohibited to your lover (אסורה לבועל)
- If you or your child has been blacklisted as a mamzer if you have been hurt because of unfair judicial processes in the rabbinic court
Is every divorcing woman eligible for assistance?Not necessarily. CWJ is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to insuring the
general justice interests of women. CWJ has limited resources and therefore chooses its cases carefully to
respond to the cause of Jewish women and divorce, with the hope that the
outcome of the case taken will engender change in Israeli society and
impact the general public’s well-being.
How much does the service cost?CWJ is a not-for-profit organization. It asks for a minimal donation for its work. For more information, contact us: cwj@cwj.org.il
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