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
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