Equal Opportunity in the IDF Is Not a Favor — It Is the Law
Equal opportunity in the IDF is not a favor. It is a binding legal obligation. This was the clear message emphasized by Rackman Center CEO
June 7, 2026
Equal opportunity in the IDF is not a favor. It is a binding legal obligation. This was the clear message emphasized by Rackman Center CEO
Israel’s rabbinical courts are funded by public money, hold power over the personal lives of millions — yet operate with zero transparency, zero female judges,
April 27, 2026 — a historic day in Israel and the Jewish world.For the first time ever, women were allowed to sit for the Chief
Last night (March 23rd, 2026), amid an ongoing war on multiple fronts, the Knesset voted and approved, in its second and third readings, the bill
Breakthrough: The Chief Rabbinate Opens Rabbinical Exams to Women. Following a High Court of Justice ruling, in response to a petition we filed at the
Israel’s Ministry of Welfare and Social Security now supports legislation to define domestic violence in Israeli law. In addition, the bill recognizes all forms of
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