Prof. Ruth Halperin- Kaddari established The Ruth and Emanuel Rackman Center for the Advancement of the Status of Women at Bar Ilan University in 2001 and is currently the Chair. She is a senior lecturer at Bar-Ilan University's Law School in Feminist Jurisprudence and Bioethics. She is a member of the UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).