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
On March 19th,The Rackman Center was thrilled to attend a meeting at El Halev in Jerusalem to meet both members of the Women’s Amuta Initiative along with representatives from the Greater Miami Jewish Federation’s Israel and Overseas Allocation Committee. The aim of the meeting was to provide an understanding of the
International Women’s Day! The Human Rights Center at the University school of Law in Minnesota ran a special event in honor of International Women’s Day. Prof Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, UN Women’s Rights Expert, was invited as a visiting scholar on campus and spoke to groups in commemoration of women’s day. Prof.
“This general Recommendation brings the Committee’s approach to equality in the family into the 21st Century”, says Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, a CEDAW expert who helped shape the General Recommendation for the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, CEDAW, the UN Committee. Click here for more details.
Women’s rights groups insist rabbis are manipulating data to claim that there are more wives refusing to accept a religious divorce than there are husbands refusing to grant one. Click to read the full article in which Prof Ruth Halperin-Kaddari is quoted.
How can anyone have the right to appeal against someone else’s divorce? How can a Gett be at risk and even retroactively taken away? How can a woman never really feel that her status is secure after a divorce? Yesterday, Dr Galit Shaul participated and spoke at a protest together
An emergency meeting of women’s organizations, including Dr Galit Shaul from The Rackman Center, was held ahead of MK Ayelet Shaked’s planned bill to base child support on both parents’ income and their involvement in the child’s care. Under the bill, Israel would no longer base child support on Jewish