Privacy Policy
Bat Kol Association (Registered Non-Profit) (hereinafter: the “Association” or “Bat Kol”) respects the privacy of users of its website, operated at the internet address https://bat-kol.org and any additional address as determined by Bat Kol from time to time (hereinafter: the “Website”).
This Privacy Policy explains the privacy practices applicable to the Website. Among other matters, it describes how Bat Kol uses information provided by you and information collected about you during your use of the Website and the Association’s services. In this policy, the term “Personal Information” means any information that can reasonably be used to identify you, including your full name, address, telephone number, email address, and similar details.
This Privacy Policy constitutes an integral part of the Website’s Terms of Use. The policy is written in the masculine form for convenience only and applies equally to all genders and identities.
Reporting a Violation of Privacy
If you believe that your privacy has been violated while using the Website or any of Bat Kol’s services, please contact us at: info@batkol.org.il.
Representatives of the Association are available to address any request, question, or complaint.
Providing Personal Information to the Association
Use of the Website itself does not require registration or the provision of Personal Information. However, certain sections and features of the Website—such as contact forms, registration for events and activities, joining study groups, registration for conferences and workshops, subscription to mailing lists, online donations, and volunteering—may require the provision of Personal Information.
Mandatory fields will be clearly marked. Failure to provide the required information may prevent completion of the registration or requested action. You undertake to provide only accurate and complete information.
Bat Kol may retain additional information regarding your inquiries and correspondence with the Association, including requests and personal assistance provided.
If you provide Personal Information relating to a third party, you hereby declare that you have obtained that person’s explicit consent to provide such information for use in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Information Collected During Use of the Website
During your use of the Website, Bat Kol may collect information regarding your usage patterns, including:
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Pages viewed, actions taken, and services of interest
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IP address, browser type, operating system, and device type
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Aggregated, anonymous statistical information באמצעות tools such as Google Analytics or other analytics services
Social Media
The Website may include options to share content on social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or LinkedIn. Please note that use of these services is subject to the privacy policies of those platforms and not to this Privacy Policy.
Use of Information
Bat Kol may use the information collected or provided by you for the following purposes:
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Providing services and registering users for events, conferences, workshops, and social activities
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Sending updates, newsletters, information about the Association’s activities, and relevant content related to LGBTQ+ pride, Jewish law, women’s leadership, Jewish feminist scholarship, education, and related fields (subject to consent)
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Improving the user experience on the Website and in the Association’s activities
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Maintaining contact with the community of members, volunteers, and participants
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Complying with legal obligations and lawful requests from competent authorities
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Enforcing the Website’s Terms of Use
Disclosure of Information to Third Parties
Bat Kol will not transfer Personal Information to third parties except in the following circumstances:
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For the purpose of providing services (such as payment processors, mailing systems, or virtual meeting platforms)
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Pursuant to a judicial order or legal requirement
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In the event of a legal claim between you and the Association
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Where disclosure is necessary to prevent serious harm to a person or property
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As part of a structural change in the Association (such as a merger or transfer of activities), subject to the new entity’s commitment to this Privacy Policy
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Transfer of anonymous or aggregated information that does not personally identify you
Cookies
The Website uses cookies to ensure proper operation, collect statistical data, personalize services and user preferences, and for information security purposes.
You may modify your browser settings to refuse cookies or to notify you when cookies are sent. However, blocking cookies may impair proper use of certain Website features and services.
Information Security
Bat Kol employs systems and procedures designed to protect information security. However, the Association cannot guarantee absolute protection against unauthorized access or disclosure. By using the Website, you acknowledge and accept this limitation.
Right to Access and Correction
Pursuant to Israel’s Protection of Privacy Law, 1981, every individual is entitled to review information held about them in databases and to request correction, updating, or deletion of such information. Such requests should be directed to the Association via email at: info@batkol.org.il.
Storage of Information Outside Israel
Information collected through the Website may be stored on servers located outside the State of Israel. By using the Website, you consent to such storage.
Changes to This Policy
Bat Kol reserves the right to update this Privacy Policy from time to time. In the event of material changes, a notice will be published on the Website. Continued use of the Website constitutes acceptance of the updated Privacy Policy.
Who we are and what we do
Bat Kol is an organization for proud religious LGBT women, founded by women who do not give up their religious identity, nor their right to live their lives as lesbian, bisexual, trans, and queer. Bat Kol works to enable religious LGBT women to live a life of truth and love, a life of sharing and equality, a life of wholeness and acceptance in religious society. Achieving its goals is essential not only for religious LGBT women, but for the entire religious community, to create a more reformed society, a more just society, a society in which kindness, truth, and peace touch.
Since the organization was founded in 2005, which at the time included about ten women, over five hundred women aged nineteen to sixty-plus have joined Bat Kol.
In every population group, 4-10 percent of women are lesbians. Religious women are no exception to this rule. In the past, religious lesbian women had to choose between the different identities that made them up. Some chose to realize their lesbian identity and leave the religious world. Others chose to remain religious and live in solitude without a family, or married into an unhappy marriage to a man, giving up a life of love and sharing. The group of women who founded Bat-Kol chose differently. They chose to remain religious, without giving up their lesbian identity – such an essential component of their inner identity.
The social group that became Bat-Kol was founded by about ten women. In the winter of 2005, the organization was born and its name was chosen. Since then, more and more women have continued to join Bat-Kol. Bat-Kol members include graduates of academies such as Kfar Pines and Tzvia, religious high schools such as Pelech, as well as graduates of the Haredi education system. Some of them have started lesbian families and are raising children with partners, some are in the closet. Each of them is dealing with the complexities of their choice.
Tamar Lempert
Bat Kol CEO
Ayala Reifler
Project Manager
Dini Rosenfeld
Community Manager
Our team
In the first half of 2008, Bat-Kol underwent a reorganization process. In a series of meetings with a consultant from Shatil, Bat-Kol's basic guidelines were formulated, and the mechanism that would allow the organization to operate effectively was built. On Tammuz 14, 5768, July 17, 2008, Bat-Kol's first plenary meeting convened. Eighty-four members attended the exciting event. They received membership cards for the first time, signed the basic guidelines document, elected the first executive committee, and Bat-Kol embarked on a new journey.
At the second plenary session held in 2009, Bat Kol's bylaws, written on the basis of the basic outline document, were approved. In December 2010, the process of registering "Bat Kol" as a non-profit organization under the name "Bat Kol, Religious Lesbian Organization" was completed.
In preparation for the Pride Parade in Jerusalem held in June 2005, Bat Kol issued a call for members of the religious community to march together in the parade to promote tolerance and acceptance of diversity in religious society. In this parade, Bat Kol members marched together as a group for the first time, along with pioneering straight religious members who responded to the call. Dressed in white and carrying purple balloons, Bat Kol women made a statement – we are here! Since then, Bat Kol has continued to march in the Pride and Tolerance Parade in Jerusalem every year, with an ever-increasing representation.
In 2009, it was decided to march as an organization in the Tel Aviv Pride Parade. Despite the negative image of this parade in the media and in the public, and despite the fact that it also includes messages with which we cannot identify, we do not doubt the importance of its existence and the achievements it has brought to the LGBT community and within it to the lesbian community.
Within the framework of Bat-Kol, regular meetings and various social activities are held for religious lesbians. These meetings provide a social framework as well as support and encouragement.
Another aspect of Bat-Kol's activities is advocacy and education towards the full integration of lesbians into the religious community. In recent years, there has been a process of change in the perception of the religious public in general, and among its rabbis in particular, regarding homosexuality and lesbianism. There is still much to be done in this area, and therefore Bat-Kol continues to work to change attitudes toward lesbians among the religious public in all its forms through various advocacy activities.
דניאלה שלו
בת ואחות, סטודנטית עייפה לפסיכולוגיה ולמשאבי אנוש, חברת בת-קול גאה.
בת קול עבורי היא הסמל לאמת, לתורה ולאהבת השם ואני שמחה על הזכות להיות בוועדה זו השנה השניה
מיה אליצור
בת 36, נשואה ליעל, אמא ל-2, גרות בצור הדסה. עובדת בג'וינט כרכזת תקציבים. חברה בבת קול 10 שנים, וחברת ועדת ביקרות בשנתיים האחרונות
Audit Committee Membership
הודיה נ.
יו"ר בת קול
בת 39, עובדת סוציאלית, חברת ועדה , בוגרת חינוך ממ"ד, חוזרת בתשובה מגיל 16, 13 שנים בבת-קול, בת קול היא מקום שמעניק בית, תקווה ובעיקר הבנה שאנחנו לא לבד.
הודיה ב.
ועדה מנהלת
בת 23, לסבית דתיה וגרה בשומרון, הצטרפתי לבת-קול בדצמבר 2022. אחראית מפגשים ביתיים ואתר בת-קול, סטודנטית לתואר ראשון במדעי המדינה.
