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Nitzan Caspi Shilony

Mar 6, 2023, 3:39 PM

My plea to Israeli women this Agunah Day

Removing oversight from the rabbinic courts will make it nearly impossible to protect women from legal abuses during Jewish divorce

Oct 28, 2022, 12:56 PM

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Don’t vote away the basic rights of women

A 'mockery' of Judaism. MK Moshe Gafni (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Choosing your party on the basis of right vs. left, or hypothetical scenarios about settlements in the West Bank imperils more of daily life than many realize

Apr 27, 2021, 3:51 PM

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Smotrich, chained wives, and the Superman effect

MK Bezalel Smotrich at the Rabbinic Court. (Spokesperson for the Beit Din, Twitter)

This MK is not the first to step in to save an agunah, and he won’t be the last, but he may be doing more harm than good

Jun 6, 2019, 5:39 PM

Halakha and the State: Irreconcilable Differences

Israelis are reeling after MK Betzalel Smotrich of the Union of Right-Wing Parties voiced his aspirations to turn Israel into a “halakha state”—a country in which Torah law would supersede civil law, authorized and enforced by the state. While...

Feb 17, 2017, 2:39 PM

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More women get-refusers than men? Rabbinic courts distort the facts

The court's faulty stats blame get refusal on the very women who await divorce, and not the real culprit: the court itself

About Me

Nitzan Caspi Shiloni, Esq. is the legal department director at the Center for Women's Justice, a legal advocacy organization leading the battle for women’s equality, dignity and justice under Jewish law in Israel. She co-hosts the CWJ Hebrew podcast, מבקרות ברבנות, which explores the thorny issues of religion and state in Israel while shining a light into the darkest corners of the Israeli rabbinic courts.