TALI FEINBERG
“We like to believe there’s no gender-based violence in our community – that Jewish husbands, wives, parents, and professionals don’t abuse. However, abuse is alive and well in the Jewish community in South Africa and around the world. We aren’t immune.”
These are the words of Rozanne Sack, one of a multitude of experts and survivors speaking at a SA Jewish Report webinar on 1 July, which unpacked the long-term effect of abuse and how difficult it is to confront it.
Human rights lawyer Professor Bonita Meyersfeld pointed out that one in three women experience gender-based violence- even in our own community. “It’s a low-level civil war. Complicity is 50% of the problem,” she says.
