On January 10th MENIFA inaugurated a new municipal initiative to train specialized drop out prevention teachers. This initiative is in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and the Municipality of Mateh Binyamin. In many places around Israel various drop out prevention programs and models are operated by multiple players – the Ministry of ...
ICAR, a coalition of 28 organizations working to promote solutions to the problem of agunot and mesoravot get(women whose husbands are unable or unwilling to grant them a Jewish divorce), in accordance with Halacha (Jewish Law) recently published a new booklet in ...
Many women who have been abused physically, sexually, emotionally or economically lack both the tools and the emotional resources to take charge of their lives. Ruach Nashit believes that in order for women to take control of their own lives, they must be ...
From New York City to Jerusalem to Budapest, participants in the Jewish Social Leadership Training Program gathered in the office of Jerusalem’s Memizrach Shemesh January 4-10 in the first of a series of meetings designed to engage participants from vastly different Jewish communities ...
A few months ago CWJ filed a tort claim against a woman for not accepting a get from her husband. We debated long and hard before filing this lawsuit. Mostly, because we know that the problem is not mutual. Women suffer much more. Let’s face it. The halakha is gender-biased. It gives men almost unfettered ...
