Latin American Forum to Combat Antisemitism

Dr. Mirta Goldstein, Vice President of ICJW, attended the Latin American Forum to Combat Antisemitism in July 2022 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This is her report.(Click here for Spanish version) In a pluralistic, international and friendly environment, I had the privilege of representing the International Council of Jewish Women and the Network of Argentine Jewish […]

Meet our New President

On May 25, 2022, Lilian Grinberg from Mexico was inaugurated as the President of the International Council of Jewish Women (ICJW) for the next 4 years. Lilian Grinberg currently heads ICJW’s Mexico affiliate “Voluntarias Judeo Mexicanas” (VJM) and coordinates ICJW’s seven affiliates in Latin America. Lilian was born in Mexico City as the youngest of […]

Central European Conference on Women’s Empowerment: Strength – Courage – Solidarity

Alice Veselá reports on the March 2022 training conference of the National Democratic Institute in Warsaw, Poland. The National Democratic Institute (NDI) works to empower women to overcome barriers to their equal and active political participation. This conference served as a venue for female representatives of national, ethnic and religious minority communities in Central Europe, […]

Holocaust Education through Music and Art

To mark International Holocaust Memorial Day, the International Council of Jewish Women is sharing the ballad “Ashtikale Broit” written by our Co-Chair of Education, Professor Zehavit Gross, which has been translated into 21 languages. ICJW is proud to share this song because it has a very important message that should be disseminated for International Holocaust […]

Durban IV Boycott & Counter-Conference

In September 2021, the United Nations will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the 2001 Durban Conference on Racism. UN Watch and parliamentarians from across Europe have launched a global boycott campaign urging countries to pull out, and there will be an online counter-conference on September 19, 2021. The Durban IV Counter-Conference Webinar on September 19 […]

US Funding of UNRWA Conditional on Agency Reform

The International Council of Jewish Women (ICJW) and the ‘UNRWA: Stop Teaching Hate’ campaign welcome the intention of the United States government to impose conditions on the renewed funding of the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA). The U.S. State Department has issued guidelines requiring that the funding of the UN agency charged with the […]

Ending Child Marriage

Charting Brighter Futures Judy Mintz, ICJW representative to UNICEF, attended the Zoom launch of the Child Marriage Monitoring Mechanism on June 2, 2021 and reports on the webinar. This webinar, organized by UNICEF, presented a vision to end child marriage.  An estimated 650 million girls and women alive today were married before their 18th birthdays. […]

Reimagine. Recreate. Restore

World Environment Day, 5 June 2021 The global crises of the past year have brought many of us to the brink of despair as we witness the fragility of life and nature. We therefore welcome the sense of hope implicit in this year’s theme for World Environment Day – ‘Reimagine. Recreate. Restore.’ The organisers of World Environment Day […]

Turkey withdraws from Istanbul Convention on Domestic Violence

ICJW has written letters of protest to the Turkish Ambassador to the United States, the Turkish UN Representative, and to UN Women, the Human Rights Committee in NY, and the Commission on the Status of Women, condemning Turkey’s withdrawal from the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence, […]