The Center translates academic knowledge and research into practical activities. It runs a legal aid program for women in family law and engages in promoting legal and social change for women and women empowerment.
The Center operates in light of the late Rabbi Emanuel Rackman’s vision of promoting women’s rights and improving the status of women in Jewish family law.
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The Women and Family Law Legal Aid Program provides quality personal legal aid to women on matters of family law either through full legal representation or through initial telephone consultation via our helpline.
The Rackman Center operates several programs that provide emotional support to women who are in the process of divorce: Short-term emotional therapy provided by MSW students, support groups, “A Woman by Your Side” – support provided by a volunteer once a week.
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Women’s rights in Israel are in danger, warns Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari: “The judicial overhaul led by Netanyahu poses great risk to Israeli women since the
The Rackman Center and Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, the head of the center, warn, together with the Forum of Law Lecturers and Lecturers for Democracy, that
The work of Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari and the Rackman Center were featured in a piece in the Jerusalem Post, “What’s next for women’s advanced halachic
