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 […]
By Dee Hart, Sydney, Australia, 28 April 2020 A couple of days ago, Past ICJW President Robyn Lenn OAM dropped at my front gate her spare copy of the book by Nelly Las – “Jewish Women in a Changing World : A history of the international Council of Jewish Women (ICJW) 1899-1995” – suggesting it […]
Myra Goldenbaum from our South African affiliate, the Union of Jewish Women, was interviewed on eNCA national TV about the important work of her organization both before and during the Coronavirus crisis. Click on the arrow below to watch.
For the first time in its history, Israel has a Women’s Party running in the March 2 election – the Kol Hanashim Party. Israel’s first women’s political party represents the diverse social fabric of Israel. The party will run in the 2020 Knesset elections to bring about gender equality, participation of diverse women in decision […]
The Union of Jewish Women in South Africa hosted Challah Bake events in 4 cities: Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth, Durban and Cape Town. Click here to see the pictures.
The Czech Council of Jewish Women organized a discussion about the Grassroots Struggle for Peace Between Israelis and Palestinians, as part of the FORUM 2000 – Festival of Democracy in Prague in October 2019. CJW President Alice Gruenfeld Vesela explains how they invited two speakers from the Middle East to attend the conference and speak […]
Reported by Madeleine Brecher, August 19, 2019 A few months ago, we learned that we had an ICJW affiliate in Uganda, and that two of our ICJW sisters would be working in a camp in the U.S. this summer. Would we like to meet them when camp was over and they were passing through NY? […]
The League of Jewish Women in the UK celebrated International Women’s Day with a Social Issues seminar entitled: “Climate Change – Some Like It Hot”. The underlying message of the day was that the cost of not dealing with climate change far outweighs the cost of seeking solutions, and that time is running out. The […]
