The Human Rights Film Festival “Mensch!”
On Sunday Prof.Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, as a representative of CEDAW (The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women), spoke at the opening
December 20, 2018
On Sunday Prof.Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, as a representative of CEDAW (The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women), spoke at the opening
Bar Ilan University Held a Solidarity Conference
We have had a busy few months at the Rackman Center, and here are some of the highlights. ~~~click here to read The Chanukah Newsletter~~~
Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari is chairing live at the 71st Session Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, consideration of the former Yugoslav Republic of
Congratulations to our CEO Dr. Galit Shaul on her election to the Head of the Emek Hefer Regional Council! The Rackman Center is extremely proud
The Rackman Center for the Advancement of the Status of Women is proud to announce that we have been awarded a grant fro m the
Adv. Keren Horowitz and Adv. Shay Zilberberg presented our petition in the court to include women in the council for the Chief Rabbinate, this week. While it was not accepted this time, it was still a success in that we were encouraged to appeal again in the future, and it
For the first time ever, a woman has been appointed to serve as a judicial assistant in an Israeli rabbinic court. The post, to which attorney Shira Ben-Eli was appointed, is considered to be among the most senior ones in the rabbinical court system, and involves close contact with its
For many years, the Rackman Center has had the pleasure to get to know and work with Rena Genn, the Israeli representative for the Jewish Federation of Greater Miami Women’s Amuta. Today we joined many fellow women’s organizations to thank her for all her hard work and support, and to
Prof Ruth Halperin-Kaddari was invited to speak at the hearing on Marital Captivity at the European Parliament in Brussels. In her session, she explained the phenomenon of marital captivity and traditions in her role as Vice-President of CEDAW. *Marital captivity refers to a situation in which women are unable to
In June, Prof Ruth Halperin-Kaddari joined other experts in the field of Agunot, at the third Agunah Summit in New York. The Rackman Center was proud to be a partner of the summit, alongside the Institute of Religion, Law and Lawyer’s Work of Fordham University, NYU Law, and the Center
We ran our annual Halachic Conference on the subject: “Marriage Outside of the Rabbinate in Israel – Challenging the Status Quo״. The conference was run together with Naamanei Torah VeAvodah. The Conference included presentations from various standpoints on this topic – halachic marriage without the rabbanut as well as according