Member organizations

Sister for Women in Israel: To improve and advance the status of working women at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder; to focus public attention on the issue of working women; and to promote a feminist perspective among working women based on their specific experience of being treated as cheap labor.

Email: info@achoti.org.il

24-hour hotline service provides emotional support and advice for women or children who are in crisis in Hebrew, English, Amharit and Russian.

Phone: - 02-673-0002 or 1-800-220230.

National Religious Women's Organization was founded in 1935 as the Women's Branch of Ha-po'el ha-Mizrachi. As a women's movement, Emunah strives to advance the status of women while strengthening the Jewish family. These values are reflected in Emunah's educational network of 120 day care centers, 5 children's homes, 6 high schools and the Emunah College.

is an Association for Aid to Women during and after Divorce Proceedings. Granit's Goals are: raising the awareness of the public to women's rights; legislation for equal cultural and economic rights for women; expand and ensure women's freedom of choice in matters of the family framework they desire; strengthen and empower the social status and image of divorced women. GRANIT provides: hot line; information; referral to appropriate and reliable legal aid; legislation by amendment of the family pension law and empowerment by means of support and self-help groups.

is a national, non-partisan, women's Zionist volunteer organization dedicated to the enhancement of the quality of life in Israel in the areas of Health Promotion, Education, Absorption, the Status of Women, Woman at Risk and the Child at Risk. Hadassah-Israel was established in 1983 to continue in the footsteps of Henrietta Szold, the founder of the world Hadassah, and has chapters throughout the country. They are guided by the words of Henrietta Szold: “Dream great dreams and take the practical steps to make them a reality.” Hadassah-Israel representatives have been on ICAR's halachic and steering committee since its inception.

Email: post@hadassah-israel.org.il HWZOA's Website: http://www.hadassah.org

The core purpose of ICJW is to bring together Jewish women from all walks of life in order to bring a driving force for social justice for all races and creeds.

Phone: 02 6285874 Email: contact@icjw.org

A Jewish-Arab center that strives to change Israeli society by promoting women’s rights, empowering women, eradicating all types of violence against women and engendering solidarity between women from different backgrounds.

Phone: 0486550977 Email ishahfc@netvision.net.il

is the public and legal advocacy arm of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism. The Center's mission is to advance religious freedom and pluralism, tolerance, social justice and civil liberties in Israel, based on the belief that these values are intrinsic to and stem from a liberal understanding of Judaism.

Email: info@irac.org

The mission of ITIM is to expand Jewish life and create avenues of access for all, to serve as an address for the critical moments of Jewish life. with the long term goal of providing detailed support, counsel and information in Jewish life to anyone in need.  ITIM seeks to offer tools that allow for the creation of meaningful lifecycle ceremonies.

The Israel Women’s Network (IWN) is Israel’s foremost advocacy group for women’s rights. IWN is a unique, non-partisan organization of women united in their determination to improve the status of women in Israel, despite differing political opinions, religious outlooks and ethnic origins.

Phone: 03-6123990 Email: office@iwn.org.il

The Jerusalem Women’s Center founded in 1994, is a feminist, grassroots organization dedicated to empowering women from Jerusalem’s diverse communities, promoting a multi-cultural model of social change. Kol Ha-Isha is active in various women’s rights coalitions, such as various coalitions against poverty, and runs projects reflecting our multicultural feminist mission – among them: a Comprehensive Program for the Economic Empowerment of Women consisting of an employment readiness project and two micro-business training programs, including “Women Cook up a Business”; a Crisis Counseling and Referral Center providing peer and legal counseling and referrals to women in distress and various support and empowerment groups both at Kol Ha-Isha and in low-income neighborhoods; “A Network of Women Directors” a new project that works with women directors in the social services and in social change organizations, strengthening their capacity to implement the rights of women and to change public policy that affects Israeli women in economic and social distress and Antea, an activist women’s art gallery.

Tel: 02-6222455 kolishao@netvision.net.il kolishaf@netvision.net.il

The Religious Women's Forum is the only apolitical, nationwide organization dedicated to the advancement of women within the framework of Jewish Law (Halacha). The Forum seeks to encourage the advancement of religious women within the religiously observant orthodox community.

Phone: 02-6720321 Email: kolech@kolech.com

operate 3 shelters for abused women and their children, a 24 hour hotline in Hebrew and Russian for women, as well as an emergency hotline for children & teens ( 09-9505720 09-9518927 1-800-353-300),the "Edna Center"-a Legal Aid Center in Herzliya for women victims of violence, who are not eligible for public legal aid, a website in 4 languages (Hebrew, English, Russian, and Spanish) on domestic violence & related issues.

Email: www. no2violence.co.il

founded in 1996, has two main streams of activity: Supporting the thousands of mesuravot get in Israel, which includes legal representation, emotional support, and empowerment programs. Campaigning for the implementation of already existing solutions for the problem of mesuravot get. This campaign includes creating public awareness, and working with the Israeli government and parliament towards a solution.

Phone: 972 2- 6712282 E-mail: Agunot@netvision.net.il

mifnim@yahoo.com

An organization & a movement striving to enhance the quality of life for women, children and families in Israel, the U.S. and around the world. They are united in belief and in action around issues ranging from religious pluralism to an improvement in the status of women at home and in the workplace.

Phone: 212 563 5222 Email: naamat@naamat.org

The National Council of Jewish Women is a volunteer organization that has been at the forefront of social change for over a century. Inspired by Jewish values, NCJW courageously takes a progressive stance on issues such as child welfare, women's rights, and reproductive freedom.

Phone: 212 645 4048 Email action@ncjw.org

Ne'emanei Torah vaAvodah was founded in 1978. The orientation of the organization is social and ideological and is distinctively not affiliated with any political party. Its members represent different segments of the population who choose, for the sake of this cause, to put political issues aside. Through Ne'emanei Torah vaAvodah members concentrate on questions of modern observance, on Jewish identity in a modern state, and on other issues that are critical to the internal workings of Israeli society.

(seedling in Hebrew) - Established in 1982, a capacity building center for grassroots social change organizations, Shatil empowers the underprivileged with the tools to improve their lives and communities. Shatil reaches out to constituencies on the economic and geographic periphery, and facilitates coalitions. Shatil’s work strengthens Israel’s democracy by increasing citizen involvement in the processes of government and the quest for social justice. Specifically, SHATIL works with organizations that: Defend civil and human rights, Promote Jewish-Arab equality and coexistence, Advance the status of women, Foster tolerance and pluralism, Bridge social and economic gaps, Pursue environmental justice, and Encourage government accountability.

Email: naomis@shatil.nif.org.il

at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies conducts and publishes advocacy research in the area of Jewish Law and women. Two Conservative rabbis, Monique Susskind Goldberg and Diana Villa research the material, while Rabbi Yisrael Warman is the halakhic advisor and Rabbi Professor David Golinkin directs the Center. It has published seven issues of the Jewish Law Watch, a biannual journal that offers alternative halakhic opinions to those of the Orthodox rabbinic courts in cases of agunot. It also published Za'akat Dalot, Halakhic Solutions for the Agunah of Our Time (2006), written by both research fellows The Center has broadened its mandate to include publishing legal decisions and information for the general public in other areas of Jewish law affecting women, and educating the broader public concerning  women in Jewish Law publishing the To Learn and To Teach series in five languages. Issues from both series are available to the public at www.responsafortoday.com

Email: diantami@netvision.net.il or goldsuss@netmedia.net.il

a non profit organization dedicated to the promotion of justice in the Israeli court system. To that end, we will seek support and inspiration from the law, academic research. lobbying efforts, and grass-roots support. We have an office on Emek Rephaim 64, Jeruslem and are already working on 5 important lawsuits, 2 research projects, and one educational project.

The Masorti Movement is a pluralistic, religious movement in Israel, affiliated with Conservative Judaism. Its philosophy combines commitment to Jewish tradition and halachah (law) with an open and positive approach to the modern world, to democratic culture and to Zionism.

Tel: +972 (2) 5658000 E-Mail: masorti@masorti.org

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The Women's International Zionist Organization, is a non-party international movement dedicated to the advancement of the status of women, welfare of all sectors of Israeli society and encouragement of Jewish education in Israel and the Diaspora.

Email: webmaster@wizo.org

is the Israel branch of International Women's League for Conservative/Masorti Judaism—the largest synagogue-based women's organization in the world. Main goals are education for women and support for individual congregations. To further these goals in Israel, Women's League Masorti Israel initiated and directs four women's study days, which annually draw 750 women. With its four language-format, the Masorti Women's Study Day has enabled women from many backgrounds to bond together and study issues facing Jewish women including the fight for rights of agunot.

Email: wleague@masorti.org

The Legal Aid Center offers assistance to Israeli women of financially limited means in legal matters pertaining to the process of obtaining a get. Clients are offered legal advice as well as representation in the Rabbinical Courts. In addition, callers to the Hotline receive free advice in matters pertaining to personal status and divorce.

Phone: 1-800-200-380, 02-671-0876