[1] The organization's mission is described as working to empower women and girls of all backgrounds, ensuring their safety, health, rights, and security.
[5] In 2001, the group proposed a long-term strategy to respond to and prevent domestic violence in the Jewish community.
Factors identified with this issue include shame, fear of unfavorable child custody outcomes, and the lack of financial means to seek legal recourse.
The group points to the issue of the lack of awareness in the Jewish community and the lack of a vigorous condemnation from rabbinic authorities which may perpetuate the perception of domestic violence as not occurring in the Jewish community.
[6][7] In 2011, CNN journalist Dana Bash resigned as a trustee of JWI under pressure over its abortion-rights advocacy.