Pursuing Truth, Justice, and Righteousness: A Call to Action

Don't forget about the Jewish Women International's upcoming conference.  The list of speakers is being updated daily.  For more information go to:

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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