Congratulations to our CEO Dr. Galit Shaul !
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
October 31, 2018
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.
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
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
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
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
Congratulations to Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari on being named one of the most influential people in gender policy in 2018 by Apolitical, alongside some of the most incredible women and men from around the world. Click here for the full list. Prof. Halperin-Kaddari was named alongside Justin Trudeau – Prime Minister,
Dr. Galit Shaul and Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari contributed to this important report by Nancy Strichman in cooperation with NCJW and the Dafna Fund. This was a participatory action research project that will be used to help leaders, activists, and funders of women’s organizations think strategically and develop a road map
Dr. Lenore Walker is an American psychologist who founded the Domestic Violence Institute, documented the Cycle of abuse and wrote The Battered Woman, for which she won the Distinguished Media Award in 1979. We welcomed her to the Rackman Center for a conversation with a group of Israeli professionals and
The Jerusalem Post interviewed Keren Horowitz, head of public policy at the Rackman Center: “This is a good first step and we are gratified that the state authorities are willing to implement a solution in the immediate future. The time has come for the Civil Service Authority to recognize that