Gender Studies Program

What is the connection between gender and the social revolutions of the 20th and 21st centuries? Have women (and men) really cracked every glass ceiling? The Gender Studies Program offers different tracks for M.A and PhD. Our program demonstrates academic excellence and leads feminist activism in Israel and in General.

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Meet Bar-Ilan University

Established in 1955, Bar-Ilan University is one of Israel leading research universities, with 9 faculties, thousands of courses spanning over all academic disciplines

Academic Staff

Prof. Ronit Irshai

Research: Resarch Gender and Modern Halakha (Jewish Law); Philosophy of Halakhah; Jewish sexual ethics; LGBTQ and halakhah; Religious Feminism; Theology and…

The Research Incubator

The Gender Studies Program at Bar-Ilan University promotes cutting-edge research in a range of inter

The Activism Incubator

BIU's Gender Studies Program promotes social activism that spearheads change, both in Israel and wor

The Center for Masculinity Studies

the only one of its kind in Israel, highlights the study of masculinity as a distinct discipline in