Pursuing Truth, Justice, and Righteousness: A Call to Action
http://jewishwomen.org/CallToAction/overview.htm
Invited speakers and keynote presenters include:
- Esta Soler - Founder and President, Family Violence Prevention Fund San Francisco, CA
- Rabbi Cindy Enger - Director Jewish Program, Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence, Seattle, WA
- Naomi Ackerman - Performer, One-Woman Show: Flowers Aren't Enough, Israel
- Nancy Aiken, PhD - Director, CHANA: Counseling, Helpline & Aid Network for Abused Women, Baltimore, Maryland
- Susan Altfeld, PhD - Director, JWI National Needs Assessment, Chicago, IL
- Anita Altman - Deputy Managing Director, Department of Government and External Affairs. Founder, UJA-Federation Family Violence Task Force-UJA-Federation of New York, New York, NY
- Miriam Berkman, JD, MSW - Child Development-Community Policing Program Coordinator, Domestic Violence Initiative Yale Child Development Study Center, New Haven, CT
- Rachel Bialer - Director, Woman to Woman-The Jerusalem Shelter for Battered Women, Jerusalem, Israel
- Connie Burk - Northwest Network of Bisexual, Trans, Lesbian & Gay Survivors of Abuse, Seattle, WA
- Toby Carey - Shalom Task Force, New York, NY
- Laura Davis - Nationally Acclaimed Author and Lecturer Gay Survivors of Author of The Courage to Heal and I Thought We'd Never Speak Again , Santa Cruz, CA
- Irit Eliav - Eastside Domestic Violence Program, Congregation Beth Shalom, Bellevue, WA
- Barbara Engel - Domestic Violence Advocate
- Brynna Fish - Coordinator, Project CHAI: Family Violence Program, Jewish Family Service Association Cleveland, OH
- Carolyn Fish - Executive Director, Rockland Family Shelter, Rockland, NY
- Sunny Fischer - Board Chair, Family Violence Prevention Fund, Founder, Chicago Foundation for Women, Chicago, IL
- Phyllis B. Frank - Director, VCS Community Change Project, Rockland County, NY
- Judge Chaya Friedman - Orphans Court of Baltimore City Chair, Board of Directors, Rockland County, NY
- CHANA-Counseling Helpline & Aid Network for Abused Women Baltimore, MD
- Rabbi Lisa Gelber - Interim Dean, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York, NY
- Ellen Goldsmith, LCSW - Project Manager, Jewish Domestic Violence Program JFCS of Long Beach/West Orange County, Long Beach, CA
- Deborah Goelman - Independent Consultant, Washington, DC
- Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb - Congregation Nahalat Shalom, Albuquerque, NM
- Naomi Graetz - Author, Silence is Deadly: Judaism Confronts Wifebeating, Beer Sheva, Israel
- Debbie Gross - Director, Crisis Center for Religious Women, Jerusalem, Israel
- Rivka Haut - Agunah Activist, New York, NY
- Leigh Hofheimer - Program Coordinator, Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence
- Israela Hirshberg - Director of the Rehabilitation Program and Half-Way Apartments
- Woman to Woman-The Jerusalem Shelter for Battered Women Jerusalem, Israel
- Hedda Matza-Houghton, CSW, New York, NY
- Alison Iser - Crisis Line Advocacy Manager, Eastside Domestic Violence Program, Seattle, WA
- Norma Baumel Joseph - Associate Professor, Concordia University, Dept of Religion, Montreal, Quebec
- Nadia Kasvin - Jewish Family Services, Columbus, OH
- Gus Kaufman, Jr., PhD - Clinical Psychologist, Atlanta, GA
- Julie Kauffman - Temple B'nai Torah, Bellevue, WA
- Laura Kaufman - Director, Jewish Women's Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Esther Kirschbaum - Shalom Task Force, New York, NY
- Cheryl Kravitz -Executive Director, National Conference for Community & Justice
- Penny Krowitz -Executive Director, Jewish Women International - Canada, Toronto, Canada
- Toby Landesman, Chicago, IL
- Rabbi Eric Lankin -Director of Religious and Educational Programs, United Jewish Communities, New York, NY
- Mildred Levinson -Chair, Jewish Women's Aid of London, London, England
- Michelle Lifton - Director, Project D'vora, Jewish Family Services, Seattle, WA
- Wendy Lipshutz - Founder & Director, Shalom Bayit Program, Jewish Family & Career Services, Atlanta, GA
- Ellyn Loy - Director of Counseling and Outreach Services, House of Ruth - Baltimore, MD
- Ruth Messinger - President, American Jewish World Service New York, NY
- Rabbi Ron Muroff - Chisuk Emuna Congregation, Harrisburg, PA
- Toby Myers - "Mother" of the Texas Battered Women's Movement, Houston, TX
- Lesley Orloff - Director, Immigrant Women Program, NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, Washington, DC
- Vicki Polin, MA, ATR, LCPC - Executive Director and Founder, The Awareness Center, Baltimore, MD
- Gerard Pulver Director, JWI Residential Treatment Center, Jerusalem, Israel
- Ruth Rasnic - Founder, of L.O Combat Violence Against Women, Director, Herzalia Shelter for Battered Women, Herzalia, Israel
- Amy Robbins, MD - Chicago, IL
- Evelyn Roth -Executive Director, FEGS Long Island Chair, UJA Federation Task Force on Family Violence
- Rabbi Drorah O'Donnell Setel - Buffalo, New York
- Evan Stark, PhD, MSW - Rutgers University
- Diane Stuart -Director, Violence Against Women Office, Washington, DC
- Rebecca Schwartz - Shalom Bayit: Bay Area Jewish Women Working to End Domestic Violence, San Francisco, CA
- Marcia Cohn Spiegel - Activist, Author, Editor, Bibliography on Domestic Abuse in the Jewish Community
- Tamara Steckler, Esq -Assistant Executive Director, New York Legal Assistance Group, New York, NY
- Jonathan Stillerman,PhD - Co-Director, Men Can Stop Rape Washington, DC
- Angela Tashayva -Department of Immigrant Community Services, Jewish Family Services, Columbus, OH
- Naomi Tucker - Founder, Co-Director, Shalom Bayit: Bay Area Jewish Women Working to End Domestic Violence, San Francisco, CA
- Lisa Twerski - Project Director, Brairot Domestic Violence Educational Course, Director of Training and Program Development, Shalom Task Force, New York, NY
- Judy Usiskin -President, Jewish Women's Aid of England - London, England
- Rebbetzin Hanna Weinberg - Baltimore, MD
- Rabbi Dovid Weinberger - Congregation Shaaray Tefila of Lawrence, Lawrence, NY
- Perla Weinstock - Jewish Family and Children Services of Toronto, Toronto,Canada
- Henna White - Community Liaison, Brooklyn DA Attorney's Office, Brooklyn, NY
- Faye Wilbur,CSW - Coordinator, Family Violence Services, Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services, New York, NY
- Nechama Wolfson - Executive Director, Shalom Task Force, New York, NY
- Jan Wood - Executive Director, CHAI Community Help and Abuse Information Denver, CO
- Joan Zorza - Editor, Domestic Violence Report and Sexual Assault Report, Washington, DC
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