Thank You - Jewish Rape Victim Advocates (Update: 12/19/2005)
I wish I was able personally thank the following people who I believe have a great deal of integrity for the work they are doing. They have all helped in advocating for the rights of Jewish survivors of incest, rape, and professional sexual misconduct (including: rabbinical sexual misconduct, cantor sexual misconduct).
- Shalom Atlas - Executive Director, Religious Men's Hotline, Jerusalem, Israel
- Mesa Baker-Leventhal, MD - Medical Director of the Baltimore Child Abuse Center
- Ellen Bass - Co-author, The Courage to Heal
- Rabbi Yosef Blau - New York, NY
- Sandra L. Bloom, MD - Child Victim Advocate, Author
- Rabbi Reuven Bulka - Ottawa, Canada
- Sophia Chamys - Advocate for the women of the Zwi Migdal Society
- Rabbi Sholom Ciment - Boynton Beach, FL
- Debra Nussbaum Cohen - Author of many articles on the topic of Sexual Violence in Jewish Communities
- Laura Davis - Co-author, The Courage to Heal
- Rabbi Mark Dratch - Executive Director, JSAFE, New York, NY
- Barbara Engle - Advocate for Survivors of Sexual Violence for over thirty years.
- Rabbi Yehudah Fine - Advocate for teens on the streets (survivors of child abuse)
- Rebecca Friedman - Advocate for the women of the Zwi Migdal Society
- Debbie Gross - Director, The Crisis Center for Religious Women (Jerusalem, Israel)
- Chezi Goldberg - Author and Victim Advocate
- Emma Goldman - Advocate for Women's Rights
- Judith Herman, MD - Author, Trauma and Recovery
- Judy Klitsner - Advocate for the Survivors of Baruch Lanner, and other cases
- Rachel Lev - Author, Shine The Light
- Mike Lew - Author, Victims No Longer
- Rachel Liberman - Advocate for the women of the Zwi Migdal Society
- Sharon Lowenstein, Attorney at Law - Author of many articles.
- Leah Marinella, RN, CNM, NP - Advocate for the survivors of Mordecai Tender, Suffern, NY
- Anne Margolis, RCN, CNM, NP, MSN - Advocate for the survivors of Mordecai Tender, Suffern, NY
- Ellen Mugman - Children's Advocate for over 20 years
- Vicki Polin - Executive Director, The Awareness Center, Baltimore, MD
- Shirley Raggsdale - Authored article on Rabbi Ephraim Bryks
- Talli Rosenbaum - co-Author Survey Released on Jewish Women's Sexuality
- Gary Rosenblatt - Editor of the Jewish Week, New York, NY
- Terrie Rymer - Advocate for Legal Advocate for Child and Adult Survivors
- Michael Salamon, PhD - Victim Advocate
- Stephanie Saul - Author of series of articles addressing rabbinical sexual misconduct
- Rukhl Schaechter - Author of articles on rabbinical sexual misconduct
- Rabbi Gedalia Schwartz - Chicago, IL
- Dr. Chaim Shatan - Wrote op-ed piece in the New York Times (May, 1972) and titled, Post-Vietnam Syndrome. Which lead to the diagnosis of PTSD
- Marty Cohn Spiegel - First rape victim advocate dedicated to Jewish communities
- Murray Sragow - Advocate for the survivors of Baruch Lanner
- Gloria Steinem - Advocate for Women's rights
- Jewish Whistleblower - Editor Jewish Whistleblower Blog
- Jan Wohlberg - Executive Director of TELL
- Steven I. Weiss - Editor Protocols and Canonist Blogs
- Rachel Yehuda - co-Author Survey Released on Jewish Women's Sexuality