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Actress Naomi Ackerman who will perform her one-woman show about domestic abuse, 'Flowers Aren't Enough,' at Jerusalem's Kol Haneshama synagogue on September 29, 2022. (Courtesy: Naomi Ackerman)
September 13, 2022, 9:09 pm
Play about abused women still resonates after 25 years
Actress and playwright Naomi Ackerman brings ‘Flowers Aren’t Enough’ to local Jerusalem performance
By Jessica Steinberg
Police arrest a suspect in the kidnapping of a woman from a battered women's shelter on October 12, 2021. (Courtesy)
October 13, 2021, 5:52 am
Police arrest 4 suspected of kidnapping sister from battered women’s shelter
Victim moved into group home after repeated instances of domestic violence at hands of relatives, who did not approve of recent divorce or of her way of life
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: advocates for victims of domestic abuse protest outside of state offices in downtown Chicago, October 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Sophia Tareen, File)
August 19, 2021, 5:22 am
Report finds US Jewish communities ill-equipped to aid domestic abuse victims
A study released by Jewish Women International says that shelter, acknowledgment, legal services and support for survivors of violence are inadequate across all denominations
By Cathryn J. Prince
An Orthodox Jewish woman looks out the window of the abused women's shelter in Beit Shemesh, July 15, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
April 30, 2020, 7:25 am
Virus lockdowns may be hiding an outbreak of violence against women, children
With a man arrested for murder of his wife and an uptick in hotline calls, professionals dealing with domestic abuse worry that the cries of many stuck at home are not being heard
By Sue Surkes
Women light candles during a rally protesting violence against women in Jerusalem, November 27, 2018 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
December 4, 2018, 5:40 am
The women murdered in Israel in 2018
As calls continue for action to be taken to end the bloodshed, these are the women who have been killed in cases of domestic violence and abuse targeting females this year. So far
By Naomi Lanzkron
Israeli Arab Majeda Abu Sharkh left, holds a picture of her daughter Duaa Abu Sharkh who was killed in Lod after years of abuse and death threats. Her niece Alaa Khalili, sits with her, Thursday, November 3, 2016. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
November 8, 2016, 10:02 am
Killings spark reckoning over status of Arab women in Israel
Calls mount for a major shift in attitudes by police and community in effort to prevent domestic violence, murder
By Aron Heller and Areej Hazboun
Dua‘a Abu Sharkh, 32, of Lod, was murdered on September 23, 2016. (courtesy Amad Abu Suwhat)
October 14, 2016, 10:21 am
Using the term ‘honor killings’ leads to many more victims, Israeli Arab activists warn
Another woman murdered in Lod leaves campaigners arguing over how to classify such deaths, to prevent dismissing them as an ‘Arab problem’
By Melanie Lidman
An Orthodox Jewish woman looks out the window of her room in an abused women's shelter in Beit Shemesh, July 15, 2014 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
November 23, 2015, 3:08 am
Not enough shelters for battered women, NGO reports
No to Violence says Israel compares poorly to other countries; number of abused women estimated at 200,000
By ToI Staff
A female Arab student walks by colorful art hanging in the corridors of the Hebrew University campus in Jerusalem in 2009. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
August 30, 2015, 8:42 am
The deadly war on women that Israel refuses to talk about
Police and officials won’t use the term ‘honor killing’ anymore, but Israeli Arab women are still being murdered, and feminists are still fighting attitudes and a legal system they say is soft on the phenomenon
By Simona Weinglass
Bat Melech
January 1, 2015, 7:12 pm
Shelter for religious battered women to double capacity
Jerusalem’s Bat Melech currently serves over 1,000 women and children each year
By JTA
(illustrative flower image via Shutterstock)
May 12, 2013, 2:36 am
Jewish battered women shed ‘happy tears’ on Mother’s Day
Sending flowers to shelters via a Jewish Women International project raises abused mothers’ spirits — and public awareness
By Debra Rubin
June 13, 2012, 10:12 am
Policeman accused of raping abuse victim
Officer denies rape claims, says had ‘consensual’ sex with woman while escorting her to an abused women’s shelter
By Aaron Kalman
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