Subject: [CivilSoc] October 3 Domestic Violence in Russia Program
From: Shai Franklin (sfranklin@ncsj.org)
Date: Thu Sep 28 2000 - 14:44:51 EDT
Jewish Women International
NCSJ: Advocates on Behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States &
Eurasia
PRESS CONFERENCE: Domestic Violence in Russia
October 3, 2000
Contact:
Diane Gardsbane
Jewish Women International
(202) 857-1300
Lesley Weiss
NCSJ
(202) 898-2500
Announcing a U.S. State Department, Bureau of Educational and Cultural
Exchanges, grant for women's leadership training project on domestic
violence in Russia.
Event Information:
Tuesday, October 3
12:00 - 1:00 pm
National Press Club (Zenger Room)
Washington, DC
Sponsors:
Jewish Women International (JWI)
NCSJ: Advocates on behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States &
Eurasia
Briefers:
Barbara Rabkin, President, JWI
Lesley Israel, Executive Committee Member, NCSJ
Sarah Tisch, Project Kesher
Representative from the Russian Jewish Congress
In coordination with National Domestic Violence Awareness Month and Jewish
Women International's Light a Fire - Share a Vision Family Violence
Awareness campaign, JWI and NCSJ announce a major new initiative. JWI and
NCSJ are collaborating with Project Kesher and the Russian Jewish Congress,
two Russian non-governmental organizations, to engage ethnic and religious
communities in addressing the serious issue of domestic violence in Russia.
The project will focus on the Jewish communities in Tula and Voronezh. The
initial phase will commence October 16, 2000, and the project will run for
15 months.
Additional collaborating U.S. organizations include the Jewish Community
Development Fund of the American Jewish World Service, the Center for the
Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence based in Seattle, Washington, the
House of Ruth, a comprehensive program for battered women in Baltimore,
Maryland and CHANA - Counseling, Helpline and Network for Abused Women
serving Jewish women in Baltimore, the Shalom Bayit program of Jewish Family
Services, Columbus, Ohio, and Safe Harbor, a shelter in Richmond, Virginia.
The project's objectives include:
* developing an awareness of domestic violence within ethnic and religious
women's groups and religious leaders, initially focusing on the Jewish
community;
* establishing educational exchanges that will pair U.S. experts in the
field of domestic violence with Russian interest groups;
* training community and religious leaders to become organizers within their
own communities;
* developing appropriate local responses to the needs of women who are
abused.
Once trainers have been identified, they will be brought to the U.S. for a
two and a half week intensive training program on domestic violence and
community organizing. The trainers will then return to their communities to
develop appropriate local responses to domestic violence. The communities of
Baltimore, MD, Cleveland, OH, and Richmond, VA, will host participants in
the U.S. training component.
Jewish Women International (JWI) strives to break the cycle of violence
through education, advocacy and action. The organization is guided by the
vision of a safe world for women, children and families. For more than a
decade, JWI has been a leading Jewish women's organization working towards
breaking the cycle of violence in both Jewish and non-Jewish communities in
the United States.
NCSJ, a non-for-profit agency created in 1971, is the mandated central
coordinating agency in the United States on behalf of the 1.5 million Jews
in the successor states. Today, NCSJ continues its commitment to safeguard
the religious and political freedoms of Jews living in the successor states,
protect their right to emigrate without impediment, monitor and combat
anti-Semitism, and ensure that Jews have full access to Jewish education,
culture, and heritage.
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JWI: 1828 L Street, NW, Suite 250, Washington, DC 20036.
Tel: 202/857-1300. Fax: 857-1380.
Email: jwi@jwi.org
Web: www.jewishwomen.org
NCSJ: 1640 Rhode Island Ave., NW, Suite 501, Washington, DC 20036.
Tel: 202/898-2500. Fax: 898-0822.
Email: ncsj@ncsj.org
Web: www.ncsj.org
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Shai A. Franklin
Director of Governmental Relations
NCSJ: Advocates on behalf of Jews in Russia,
Ukraine, the Baltic States & Eurasia
202/898-2500 sfranklin@ncsj.org
fax 898-0822 www.ncsj.org
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