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The Jewish
community
responds to
domestic abuse.

"Violence exists among Jewish
families... Statistics have shown it all
But, statistics are debatable.
They are only inanimate numbers.
People are real."

Rabbi Julie Ringold Spitzer,
author of When Love Is Not Enough:
Spousal Abuse in Rabbinic and Contemporary Judaism

achel doesn't look scarred.
Her hair is neatly combed
and her complexion is flaw-
less. Yet when she shops at
Orchard Mall, she shrinks at
gazes from passersby. She
thinks they'll see her
wounds. She fears strangers
and friends will know her se-
cret.
Rachel's husband beat her.
For almost six years, the
mother of two young children
did not seek help. Finally,
she and her husband signed
up for marital counseling
with a social worker from
Jewish Family Service.
Rachel knew they needed
therapy, but she stopped go-
ing.
"I was embarrassed to go