A Place to Hide, A Place to Heal: A Battered Women’s Shelter for Orthodox Jews

A number of years ago, when I still worked as a balanit in the Mikvah (attendent at the ritual bath) in our yishuv, the Moetza Datit (religious authority) organized a few days of continuing education. One of the lecturers at this two day event was Dr. Shulamit Lehman, a social worker who works for Yad Sarah specializing in dealing with domestic violence. Her lecture was very informative and emotionally harrowing. I wrote notes, fully intending to write them up for a blog post, but I was so sh