Parshat Vayishlach – From Dina’s Suffering to Violence Against Women Today

In this podcast Karen Miller Jackson uses the story of Dina to explore issues of domestic and sexual abuse. She interviews Debbie Gross, Director of Tahel Crisis Center for Religious Women and Children, to understand the affects of CoVid on domestic and sexual abuse and explores how the reactions of Yaakov and his sons to Dina’s rape can shed light on different response mechanisms. In the effort to spread light on the darkness of sexual and domestic abuse The Eden Center recently featured a blog on “Survivors of Sexual Assault and Their Encounter with Immersion in the Mikveh.” Press here to read it Sign up here to receive this podcast weekly. Sponsor an episode of this podcast here.