An exciting and powerful conference was held this week at the Leo Buck Education Center as part of the week of the fight against violence against women, in which over 170 women from around the city of Haifa participated. Leo Buck embraced and honored nine leading women in the Arab society in Haifa, who have made a significant contribution in many and varied fields.
At the beginning of the gathering, Rabbi Ofek Meir, CEO of Leo Buck, said: "The responsibility rests on all of us, especially the men among us, to engage in a persistent fight against violence against women, who have a basic right to live with dignity and without vulnerability."
"She has enough violence"
The evening was opened by the dance major of Leo Buck High School, under the instruction of Ella Bar David Shahar. The rabbi of the Leo Buck Education Center Usherat Moorg gave an emotional speech, after which city councilor Shahira Shelbi, Yam Tanos, Agnes Shahada, Friel Ahshaibon, Hoda Abu Kias, Janit Mater, Halima Kosini and Zahya Farah took the stage. In addition, an exhibition under the title "Enough with violence" was created especially for this day at Leo Buck High School.
Asherat Moorg, rabbi of the Leo Buck Education Center: "An exciting and powerful evening at Leo Bak, of leading women in Arab society and their struggle against violence against women. As a rabbi and as a woman, I welcomed the existence of such a significant evening, especially against the background of the daily news about women's vulnerability. I welcomed their ongoing struggle to maintain the basic right of women to live without physical violence, Verbally or financially. There is a tendency in society to believe that only women will attend a women's evening. To my delight, men were also present among the 150 participants. And the more men join this revolution, the more we will succeed together in increasing the light and banishing the darkness."
Shahira Shelbi, member of the Haifa City Council: "We must show zero tolerance for violence against women in general. Our society has recently become an especially violent society. Each and every one of us is required to act to stop this intolerable situation. I see in this environment, Carmel Sharfati and Eddie Aljamal, Ein Hayam and the Leo Bak complex a pearl of neighborhood Good and long-lasting. I and all of us appreciate the contribution of the Leo Buck Education Center to fostering life together, a life of understanding and cooperation. Proud to be a part of this special and important neighborhood."
Yam Tanos, a former educational consultant and today a peace activist: "Today I apply the tools and skills in my work as an educational consultant for dialogue between the two peoples as part of Women Making Peace. Violence begins in the immediate environment and in the family. It is important that we work with the parents and especially with the father in every family. Because we ourselves are growing the violent ones that we have built. We must help mothers and women overcome Any act of violence against them. We must be sensitive, especially in our Arab society."
The works of the "Enough of Violence" exhibition were photographed by students of the 2th grade photography communication major, XNUMXth grade students in cooperation and under the leadership of the school's student council and in partnership with the Adam to Adam - Adam initiative, with the aim of raising awareness of the prevention of violence against women wherever they may be. This is not a struggle of individuals. Nor is it a women's sectional struggle. This is the struggle of all of us, women and men who want and ask for a sane society, where women feel safe to live their lives as they see fit, out of free choice and out of tolerance and importance to the value of human dignity.
The process was led by the teachers: Shlomit Etgar, Raviv Argov, Graziela Soskin Avraham and Liav Vansover, Naama Cohen Ashkenazi, Little Farbstein and Yaela Estrogano, leaders of the upper division leadership field.
In the youth division, we also celebrated the day of the fight against violence against women with a "Song of the Day", students and teachers came dressed in red and black shirts and on Parents' Day there were sales that included bracelets with the inscription "Leo Buck says no to violence" with the proceeds going to the purchase of winter equipment for women's shelters.
Do teachers from the Arab society work at the Leo Beck school?
Lucky that violence against men is allowed.
Not only allowed, hidden.
Not only is it hidden, it has become a convention that does not involve violence at all.
When a woman beats, hits, slanders, slanders, and harasses men - everything is allowed.
Any such thing that a man does - will immediately be defined as terrible violence.
Food for thought.