International Women’s Day 2024

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT – Lilian Grinberg On this International Women’s Day, I want to celebrate the strength, courage and resilience that each of you brings to the world. Today, we pay tribute to women of all ages, backgrounds and trajectories, whose contributions have been fundamental in all aspects of society. In a world that […]

ICJW at the Human Rights Council

ICJW’s representative to the United Nations-Geneva, Léonie de Picciotto introduced Prof. Marcelo Kohen who spoke at the 55th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on February 26, 2024. Marcelo Kohen, Emeritus Professor of International Law, Geneva Graduate Institute and Former Secretary-General of the Institute of International Law (Institut de Droit International) – […]

NCJW Campaigning Against Sexual Violence

National Council of Jewish Women CEO Sheila Katz spoke at Wednesday, February 14’s U.S. Congressional Roundtable to raise awareness of this sexual and gender-based violence on October 7 and since then against the hostages in Hamas captivity. Watch the video of her speech on Facebook: https://fb.watch/qhLefS-D1c/ Read her speech in full: We are here today […]

Remembering the Shoah with Evelyn Askolovitch

In 2022, Léonie de Picciotto interviewed her friend and ICJW colleague Evelyn Askolovitch about her survival story and her personal take on combatting antisemitism. An edited version was included in the ICJW Newsletter in 2022, but here we reproduce the entire interview. My dear friend Evelyn, we have known each other practically forever; your parents, […]

Remembering the Hostages: Day 100

ICJW’s affiliate in Israel, the Council of Women’s Organizations (CWOI) held an event on  Sunday 14 January to mark 100 days of the war against Hamas, and 100 days that 136 hostages remain in Hamas captivity. The event marked 100 days since women, men, the elderly and children were kidnapped by Hamas. After 100 days […]

South Africa and Israel at the ICJ

In January 2024, the South African Government brought a case of genocide against Israel in the International Court of Justice. Bev Goldman, President of ICJW’s South African affiliate, the Union of Jewish Women, explains why. In a brutal and savage attack, thousands of Hamas-led terrorists burst into Israel on October 7, rampaging through communities and […]

ICJW Panama Declaration

We, the Executive Committee of the International Council of Jewish Women, representing 34 affiliates worldwide, meeting in Panama City in November 2023, strongly condemn the unprecedented torture and  massacre of innocent civilians, including children and babies, and the systematic use of gender-based violence against women in Israel perpetrated by the Hamas terrorist organization on October 7, […]

Commemorating the 85th Anniversary of Kristallnacht

Judy Mintz and Joan Lurie Goldberg report on a commemorative event on November 9, 2023, hosted by the Touro University Hans Goldschmidt Institute for Human Rights and The Holocaust. This annual event, chaired by Professor Anne Bayefsky, began with a reminder of why during this most critical time since October 7th we must also remember […]

La Pregunta Judía – The Jewish Question

English translation follows this Spanish article by Adina Chelminsky. ¿Será momento de preguntarnos si la respuesta, en las calles del mundo, ante lo ocurrido en Israel Y Palestina tiene un toque de antisemitismo? La semana pasada me marcó mi hijo que estudia fuera de México. Se me hizo raro porque es bastante independiente pero me […]