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YU Study Finds Higher Marital Satisfaction For Shalom Workshop participants
A study was recently conducted at Yeshiva University to determine whether or not there were differences between those who attended a Shalom Workshop premarital workshop, another premarital workshop, or no premarital workshop and their overall marital satisfaction.
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Healthy Relationships on Both Sides: The Shalom Task Force Men’s Program
For the past five years, Shalom Task Force’s groundbreaking work in creating healthy relationships and preventing domestic abuse has been brought to yeshivas throughout the metropolitan area, in a program for bochurim called Panim el Panim.
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Nearly 1 in 5 Women in U.S. Survey Say They Have Been Sexually Assaulted
An exhaustive government survey of rape and domestic violence released affirmed that sexual violence against women remains endemic in the United States and in some instances may be far more common than previously thought.
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I’m So Confused, Am I Being Abused? New book by Lisa Twerski, LCSW
Domestic abuse is a reality that some unfortunately face in their marriages, and one that can be quite confusing and difficult to grapple with.
In her new book, I'm So Confused, Am I Being Abused?, Lisa Twerski, LCSW explains how to differentiate between dysfunction, disorders and domestic abuse.
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The Impact of Domestic Violence In Our Community
Family violence and domestic abuse have a significant impact on the lives of women and children and the long-terms costs facing our community.
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The Need For More Marriage Education
Are we doing enough to prepare our children for marriage? I'm not talking about matters of Jewish law that couples learn about with their Chasson and Kallah teachers before they get married.
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STF Contributes To “Charades” - the final in a series on relationships in Mishpacha Magazine
In an ongoing series in Mispacha Magazine callled "Charades" a couple gets back together with the appropriate boundaries in place so an abusive situation will not recur.
Click here to read entire article.
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Question: Is battering the only form of domestic abuse?
In discussing the occurrence of domestic violence, we must first understand what is meant by the terms "domestic violence" or "domestic abuse.” Most of us still have the image of an abused woman as bloodied and battered, a victim of physical violence; this is a misperception.
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In Memory of Leiby Kletzky z’tl
An eight-year-old boy, Leiby Kletzky, was on his way home from day camp in Brooklyn when he mysteriously disappeared. A frantic search, spearheaded by the FBI and aided by the entire community, failed to find him for two full days. And then his mother and father had to endure every parent's worst nightmare. Leiby was found dismembered.
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26% Of British Jewish Women Abused, Study Finds
One in four Jewish women are victims of domestic abuse, according to the largest survey of its kind. The Jewish Women's Aid study, You know a Jewish woman suffering from domestic abuse: Domestic abuse and the British Jewish community, found that 26 per cent of the 842 people surveyed had personally experienced domestic abuse.
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