ICJW’s representatives at the United Nations in New York participated in a protest rally near the New York office of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), together with other Jewish NGOs at the UN, The Lawfare Project , Yad Yamin NYC, and the #EndJewHatred movement. Another similar demonstration took place simultaneously near the […]
An historic Joint Statement on Women, Peace and Diplomacy was presented to the Human Rights Council in Geneva by the governments of Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Morocco, and Israel. On Wednesday 22 September 2021, during the 48th Session of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Yusuf Abdulkarim Bucheeri of Bahrain delivered a Joint […]
Does feminine leadership have special characteristics?How have female leaders been coping with the uncertainties of COVID 19? Have we shown resilience and seized opportunities to do things differently? Click here to watch the Seminar on YouTube SEMINAR PROGRAM Click here to download the Seminar Program (22 page PDF) The Seminar is free of charge but we […]
Dr. Nelly Las has updated the history of ICJW in the Jewish Women’s Archives, now renamed the Shalvi/HymanEncyclopedia of Jewish Women. She did so with help from many members of the ICJW Executive and Presidents past and present. You can read the complete article here: https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/international-council-of-jewish-women The article includes many historic and recent photographs of […]
Even a global pandemic could not stop ICJW’s affiliates around the world from working day and night to help their local communities. We present some examples of their hard work in our latest E-Links Community Action newsletter. From Croatia to Costa Rica, and from Hungary to Mexico, you can read about how different Jewish community […]
The second Webinar in ICJW’s Bridging the Gap series included the voices of four women leaders from ICJW- affiliated Jewish women’s organizations in Greece, Poland, South Africa and Sweden. The online webinar took place on Wednesday April 21. Click here to watch the video Here are the bios of the four participants: Karolina Schnaider from […]
Who is Nasrin Sotoudeh? Why does she matter so much? Debby Altow, Vice President of ICJW and Vice President of NCJW Canada, explains. In December 2020, Queens University in Canada conferred an honorary degree on the Iranian human rights campaigner Nasrin Sotoudeh, to recognize her profound contributions to the decades-long struggle for human rights and […]
Karoline Schnaider tells the story of one of ICJW’s newest and youngest affiliates – the Swedish Jewish Women’s Society in Malmö, Sweden. One evening, during the fall of 2016, a group of friends met together over dinner in order to discuss an issue of great interest and importance to us all: our need for a […]
Hadassah Nakiza Waluntu is President of the Union of Jewish Women of Uganda, representing the women of the Abayudaya tribe in Eastern Uganda, East Africa. She is 26 years old and studying for her BA in Media Technology, hoping to graduate this year. She runs the UJW on a volunteer basis, serving the 60 women […]
Lynne Raphaely from the Union of Jewish Women in South Africa reports on three important interfaith projects with South Africa’s Chinese and Muslim communities. Showing solidarity with the Chinese Community In March 2020, members of the Johannesburg Jewish community prepared for the upcoming Purim festival in a unique way by doing their pre-Purim shopping at […]
