Recently the Barkai Center hosted a lecture by Attorney Noach Korman, the founder of Bat Melech. Bat Melech, today, runs two shelters for religious battered women. In addition to the physical protection that they receive during their time in the shelter, the women (and the children when there are children) also receive legal aid and emotional support. Also, the women are given an opportunity to develop skills that will enable them to be independent in the future.
Noach told the rabbis how he came to establish Bat Melech. Years ago, a Haredi woman onced asked him to represent her as an attorney. She was being beaten and she ran away from her violent husband. When she came to a shelter for battered women she realized that it would not be possible for her to live a religious life in the shelter. "This is what led me to establish Bat Melech."
Noach spoke to the rabbis about the topic of violence in the family in the religious community and which resources there are in the community or women suffering from violence.
