Opening the New Year with a Festive Event for “Woman by Your Side” Volunteers
We opened the new year of activity with a festive event for our “Woman by Your Side” volunteers. For the first time, we brought together
November 11, 2025
We opened the new year of activity with a festive event for our “Woman by Your Side” volunteers. For the first time, we brought together
he State of Israel is falling behind in the fight against violence against women, because the law does not define “domestic violence.” Since the beginning
rs under physical violence from her husband. Later on, he was arrested and convicted of sexually assaulting her daughter and two other young relatives. However,
28 women have been murdered in Israel since early 2025. The murder of Hodaya Fadida shows the urgent need to address domestic violence in Israel.
After the Dinah The Dinah Project, that operates under the auspices of The Rackman Center, revealed dozens of testimonies of rape, sexual assault and intentional
Last week, we marked the completion of the psychotherapy internship year at the Rackman Center in the Faculty of Law at Bar-Ilan University. Through our
Freedom of marriage is one of the most important and difficult challenges Israel faces in the field of religion-state relations. In a webinar, hosted by Hiddush, Prof. Halperin-Kaddari describes key issues in this area and illustrates how important it is to promote this freedom and change the current reality, which violates
It is with great excitement that we announce our new partner, the Jewish Women’s Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago. JWF will be supporting our very important project to work to change Israel’s systemic response to domestic violence. We are grateful to the Foundation for their support. Our efforts will focus on:
Can Progressive ideals and Jewish law coexist? A feminist answer and a case study on the issue of agunot. A lecture by Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari , at the celebration event of the life of Rabbi Emanuel Rackman, namesake of The Rackman Center for the Advancement of Women at Bar-Ilan
It was recently reported that, shockingly, in Israel in the year 2020, the government is negotiating a plan with the leaders of the Haredi community whereby girls in the Haredi education system will remain home to allow the boys to return to school and study in small groups in hopes
Out of the 12 permanent Knesset committees of the 23rd Knesset – there is only one woman serving as chair (MK Miki Haimovich). This bleak picture has a far-reaching impact on women and girls in Israel, as well as on the society as a whole. Last week, together with Itach -Maaki,
Today (6.7.2020), together with additional civil society organizations, we contacted the CEO of Mifal Hapayis (Israel’s national lottery company) following discrimination against women in the company’s 2020 Torah essay contest. Mifal Hapayis’ council for culture and art recently announced an award winning Torah essay contest divided into three tracks. The