Synagogue denominations from Liberal to strictly Orthodox have agreed to give over space on thousands of ladies’ toilet walls to reach victims of domestic violence.
The charity Jewish Women’s Aid has reached agreement to place posters in synagogue toilets all over Britain to alert women victims of domestic abuse to its services. The campaign, to be launched in the next few weeks, is intended to give “a public voice to a private problem”, according to JWA chief executive Abigail Morris.
The charity began to contact the synagogue bodies after discovering “a disproportionately high level of referrals from women who are members of synagogues which display our posters in the toilets”, she said.
The women, Ms Morris said, can be alone and can read and assimilate the information “without being observed. It may be the first time they realise there’s a name for what they or their loved ones may be suffering.”
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