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
We ran our annual Halachic Conference on the subject: “Marriage Outside of the Rabbinate in Israel – Challenging the Status Quo״. The conference was run
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
We warmly congratulate Mrs Mary Lilling-Goldberg on receiving the Bar Ilan University Presidential Award of Distinction for her valued support of the Rackman Center. We so appreciate your friendship and encouragement and hope that we will continue working together in the future.
It was our pleasure to meet Mr. and Mrs. Esther and Romie Tager QC at the Annual Tager Prize, which, in recognition of their contribution to Israeli Law, presented an award to one of Bar Ilan’s law students. The Tager’s contribution includes their ongoing support of our innovative and unique
