ISRAEL
Arutz Sheva
By Raphael Poch
First Publish: 12/3/2015
There has been a dramatic change over the past three decades with regard to how the Jewish community, and more specifically the Orthodox Jewish community, deals with the after effects and trauma of sexual violence and abuse. This change is not only taking place in the Modern-Orthodox world, but also in the Ultra-Orthodox (haredi) world.
Debbie Gross, founder and director of religious women crisis center Tahel told Arutz Sheva, that this is due to the work that Tahel and other organizations have been doing.
“25 years ago, no one was talking about domestic violence and sexual abuse in the Orthodox community. We saw last year that people were talking about it. That is due to our work. So we created a conference about it.”
Tahel’s conference last year was attended by over 650 people from around the world. Gross said that the major aspect of last year’s conference was idea sharing and cooperation.
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