Check it Out - Beit Ruth’s 2023 Gala is Featured in Manhattan Magazine!

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Guests featured in the magazine are among the more than 250 Beit Ruth friends and supporters who helped us celebrate the 10th Anniversary of opening the Beit Ruth Village, including our newest ambassador, “Wonder Woman” actress, Gal Gadot, who presented a special video message – because “Every Child Deserves a Hero.” Save-the-date for our 2024 Gala - May 7 at Guastavino's. Register here.

“This Doesn’t Happen in My Community: Understanding Violence Against Girls and Young Women Locally and Globally”

An international panel of experts explored solutions to ending gender-based violence during “This Doesn’t Happen in My Community: Understanding Violence Against Girls and Young Women Locally and Globally,” a Feb. 12 webinar convened by Beit Ruth for Young Women & Girls At Risk, a long-term therapeutic residence and school for vulnerable young women in Israel. Read more here.

A Day in the Life at Beit Ruth for Young Women & Girls At Risk

The sound of clanking forks, high-pitched chatter, and giggles fill the dining room—the perfect soundtrack to a new morning in the Beit Ruth Village in Afula, Israel. But this is not just any dining room table. At this table, 14 “sisters” from different continents, different races, and different ages sit close together, elbows pressing up against one another, humming the latest TikTok songs and telling jokes. Read more here.

I am your future: Today’s teenagers, tomorrow’s women

Girls who have known abuse heal and grow in their self-confidence, and avoid patterns of negative behavior; they learn positive alternatives instead.

In 1911, 1 million+ people gathered in support of the first International Women’s Day. Men and women around the world marked the occasion by attending rallies and campaigning for women’s right to work, vote, be trained, to hold public office, and to end discrimination.

Fast forward to 1975 when the United Nations celebrated International Women’s Day for the first time. More recently, this day is commemorated worldwide to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women while also advocating for a more gender equal world and raising awareness of gender bias. Read more here.

International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women Should Be Everyday

Since 1981, women’s rights activists have been observing November 25 as a day against gender-based violence. The date was selected to honor the Mirabal sisters. Political activists from the Dominican Republic, three of the four sisters were brutally murdered in 1960. Their names were Patria Mercedes Mirabal Reyes; Maria Argentina Minerva Mirabal Reyes; and Antonia Maria Teresa Mirabal Reyes. Know their names. The ruler of their country, Rafael Trujillo, ordered the killings. Read more here.

Jewish Organizations Discuss Violence Against Women Globally

Since the pandemic, domestic violence against women and girls around the world has increased dramatically. This concerning trend is why, on November 18, Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation (MASHAV), The Golda Meir MASHAV Carmel International Training Center (MCTC), and Beit Ruth virtually brought together more than 450 people (Zoom and Facebook) from the United States, Israel, Kenya, Taiwan, Myanmar, Switzerland, and other countries to discuss “Girls & Women At Risk of Violence: The Global Challenge and Israel’s Experience.” Read more here.

Israeli Experts Offer Advice as Domestic Abuse Rises During Lockdown

As family violence rises worldwide during the Coronavirus lockdown, Beit Ruth, presented a webinar on protecting women from domestic violence during the crisis. Read more here.

Beit Ruth Celebrates Its Bat Mitzvah Year

It is hard to believe that December marked the last month of celebrating the Bat Mitzvah year of Beit Ruth. What an incredible milestone – 13 years of bringing in and caring for girls, most of whom arrived with just the clothes on their backs and, if they were lucky, a toothbrush in their hands. Read more here.

Here They Can Breathe Again

The girls of Beit Ruth come here by court order due to physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. Most of them dropped out of school; some lost family. Each has a personal story and life events that led her to, in many cases, live on the streets . They arrive at Beit Ruth, an environment that allows them to grow, develop, and return to functioning. Read more here.

It Takes a Village to Heal Israel’s Abused Teen Girls

New York philanthropist Susan Ashner celebrates the opening of a new school at Beit Ruth, marking growth for the holistic therapeutic refuge for young female victims. Read more here.

JCNCF to Host Beit Ruth Weekend

Ruth. Outsider. Devoted daughter-in-law. Jew by choice. Unlikely Jewish matriarch. This, in a nutshell, is the biblical story of Ruth. But her story doesn’t end there. As anyone who studies Torah would say, the ancient stories that are retold century after century, week after week, and that define the journeys and the values of the Jewish people, are as relevant today and live on in our modern world, as we search for greater meaning and purpose. Read more here.

Shelter from Storm for Abused Girls

“To whom does this young woman belong?” [Ruth 2:5]

Zohar, born under African skies, is a daughter of Beta Israel, Ethiopian Jews descended from the Tribe of Dan, once one of the Ten Lost Tribes. Moving with her family to Israel when she was 5, by 13 she was lean and athletic, a highly ranked long-distance runner, racing through Israel’s streets, parks and fields, until raped by a stranger in the Ramat Gan soil. Read more here.

JCNCF’s Annual Beit Ruth Brunch Set for January 29

Over 30,000 girls ages 12 to 18 are considered at risk in Israel. Yes, in Israel. Lost to the streets, forgotten, discarded, abused. The issue of vulnerable and at-risk girls in Israel poses a serious threat for the larger mainstream of Israel, and its future. Read more here.