Born in to a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, on May 17, 1938, Freedman received a BA from Bennington College and an MA from New York University.

She became famous from her desire to modify abortion laws and raise awareness to the civil rights movement.

The party failed to cross the 1% electoral threshold though it did succeed in attracting public support for women's issues.

[4] However, in her interview in 2015 with the American Jewish Peace Archive, she stated that she "was drawn into what I would call foreign policy issues because I was a member of Knesset, and that was totally accidental and unplanned" (about her involvement with the Palestinian conflict).

[5][6][7] Freedman wrote an article titled "Feminist Publishing in Israel" for the Women's Studies Newsletter in 1980.

She also spoke about how few books on feminism were originally written in Hebrew and the minimal efforts there were to publish feminist writings.

[5] Freedman was the founding president of Brit Tzedek v'Shalom,[5][6] a pro-Israel and pro-peace organization which merged into J Street in 2010.