Murder is the Ultimate Outcome of Domestic Violence
The Rackman Center participated in an emergency discussion in the Knesset Committee for the Advancement of Women’s Status about the alarming rise in
June 9, 2025
The Rackman Center participated in an emergency discussion in the Knesset Committee for the Advancement of Women’s Status about the alarming rise in
The Rackman Center welcomes Adv. Shelly Blatt Zak as our new CEO. Shelly joins the Rackman Center after a 20-year legal career in the
The Rackman Center has launched two support groups for women going through divorce proceedings, creating a successful collaboration between the Rackman Center and Bar-Ilan University’s
MK Simcha Rothman is leading a revolution in Israel’s child support laws by empowering a religious committee instead of civil reformer experts. In a discussion
“It’s obvious today that family law must go beyond marriage and divorce law, to include international and immigration law”, said Professor Daphna Hacker, speaking at
Divorce Following Relocation to a Foreign Country: Legal Perspectives Recent events in Israel and worldwide have driven many families to relocate overseas temporarily or
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