The Charney Forum for New Diplomacy & the Forum for Gender, Law and Policy a special online panel with three prominent legal figures about three Ruths: Biblical Ruth, Ruth Gavison and RBG.
Here's a link to the recording of the event
Panelists
Anat Saragusti
Journalist, Publicist, Jurist, Activist
Professor Shulamit Almog
Co-Director, The Forum for Gender, Law and Policy Faculty of Law
University of Haifa
A leading journalist in Israel, Saragusti’s extensive experience includes: former CEO of Agenda (Israeli Center for Strategic Communications), news editor, reporter photographer, peace activist, and human rights advocate. She is a founding member of Ta Ha'Itonayot (a group of leading Israeli women with media orientation) and Merkaz Media Nashim (Gender Media Center).
Professor Almog researches in the areas of law and literature, law and culture, and feminist legal studies, and has published numerous books and articles in the U.S, Canadian, European and Israeli law reviews, focusing on sexuality and law, prostitution and women in army. Bills dealing with mobbing at workplace and gender neutral language, inspired by her work, are being prepared. In addition to her research, she is publicly active in human rights issues. She appears before the Israeli Knesset, has drafted sections of Israel’s report to the UN on the International Convention on Children’s Rights, has participated in the committee to reform Israel’s adoption law, and serves as a committee member for the National Award for Combating Trafficking in Persons. Proffesor Almog is deeply committed to the application of research to promote social justice, and believes that a rigorous intellectual framework, focused on the power of narrative, can inform policy in these areas in a manner that can bring about very real improvements to people’s lives. In recent years she dealt extensively with law and narrative, and with the pivotal role of narrative in the quest for social change and paradigm shifting.
Professor Noya Rimalt
Co-Director, The Forum for Gender, Law and Policy
Faculty of Law
University of Haifa
Professor Rimalt’s scholarship examines the intersections of gender, law and feminism in both legal theory and practice. She has written numerous articles on issues such as female offenders, sexual harassment, gender and multiculturalism, women in the military, female conscientious objectors, motherhood and law, political empowerment of women, abortion and gender equality in the workplace. Her book Legal Feminism from Theory to Practice: The Struggle for Gender Equality in Israel and the United States, published in 2010, serves as a basic textbook in law and feminism courses. Before joining the University of Haifa, Professor Rimalt served as the founding director of the first civil rights legal clinic in Israel. In recent years she was a visiting professor at Georgetown University, American University and the University of Toronto. She regularly advises the Knesset Committee on the Status of Women. A bill amending abortion law in Israel, drafted by Professor Rimalt, is currently under preliminary consideration in the Knesset.
The Forum for Gender, Law and Policy was established in 2014 with the goal of changing the landscape of feminist legal research and activism in Israel. The Forum serves as the first academic platform of its kind for the advancement of research, instruction, legal training, community outreach, and public policy initiatives surrounding topics of gender inequality in Israel.