by SBlumenkranz | Apr 16, 2018 | Blog
The Israel Women's Network, a Foundation grantee, won an important court victory last week: Israel's Labor Court ruled that the state is not allowed to hold a gender-segregated training course for civil servants. The court accepted the IWN's position that...
by SBlumenkranz | Apr 10, 2018 | Blog
Galit Shaul, CEO of the Rackman Center, a Hadassah Foundation grantee, is running for mayor of the Emek Hefer Regional Council in Israel! In an op-ed, Shaul says that she was inspired by the #MeToo movement in the US, which quickly became a social movement in Israel,...
by SBlumenkranz | Apr 10, 2018 | Blog
Hamutal Gouri, the outgoing director of the Dafna Foundation–and a long-time partner with the Hadassah Foundation–penned a must-read essay in ejewishphilanthropy.com about the future of funding for feminist activities in Israel. She also discusses the...
by SBlumenkranz | Mar 29, 2018 | Blog
Orit Sulitzeanu (above, center), executive director of our grantee, the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel, participated in a panel at the United Nations today about sexual harassment within the U.N. itself. It was painfully clear, based on statements from...
by SBlumenkranz | Mar 22, 2018 | Blog
Because our office has been closed so many days over the past couple of weeks due to snow/inclement weather—and we know that so many of our friends have also experienced disruptions due to the weather—we have decided to extend the deadline for the Bernice S....
by SBlumenkranz | Mar 22, 2018 | Blog
A year before #MeToo hit the mainstream, a program supported by the Hadassah Foundation, the Jewish United Fund of Chicago's Research Training Internship (RTI) program, created a Passover haggadah that explores sexual violence and rape culture. This year, they are...
