The SHALVA Founders
SHALVA is a JUF-partner organization and a grantee of the Jewish Women's Foundation, which educates the community about abuse in Jewish homes, legitimizes its discussion, and provides a full array of services to help survivors heal from abuse. SHALVA offers educational programming, advocacy, counseling, legal aid, financial assistance, rabbinical intervention, and other supportive services.
The narrators discuss their backgrounds, religious ideas, careers, and activist experiences. In 1988, SHALVA's founders identified a lack of support systems and programs for survivors of domestic abuse and established the organization to meet this need. They connect SHALVA's mission to the principles of Judaism and share stories of the organization's many accomplishments over the years. Additional topics include divorce, the Orthodox Jewish community, and fundraising.
The views expressed in these interviews are solely those of the speakers and do not reflect the positions of JWA or its affiliates.
