Empowering families to build healthy relationships — and restoring hope where abuse has taken root

There is no situation more truthful than marital harmony. For nine years we have brought the community lectures on the many facets of marital harmony, featuring top-tier speakers from California, New York, Maryland, New Jersey, and Israel. Hundreds attend each lecture, and the post-lecture discussion with our staff and the speaker often spawns the most meaningful conversations of the evening.

Several lectures have tackled intimacy directly — a subject that remains semi-taboo in many faith-based communities, yet is essential to marital harmony, especially given the rise of pornography use and widespread misunderstanding of what genuine intimacy is. In that same spirit, we address sexual abuse and forced coercion openly, rather than leaving them unspoken.

Many abused women and children don't know where to turn. We offer guidance toward therapy, shelter, support, and legal options, backed by close relationships with therapists, schools, houses of worship, attorneys, and shelters.

We also help women obtain a get, the Jewish divorce document required to remarry under religious law. When a husband withholds a get to extort his ex-spouse, that is its own form of abuse — religious abuse — and we work closely with Get Jewish Divorce, an organization dedicated to women facing exactly this struggle.

Family meal program. Rather than a meal delivery or a soup line, we connect families healing from abuse with other families in the community for full sit-down meals — building bonds and self-confidence alongside a full stomach.

Play date arrangements. For mothers carrying the full weight of caretaking and providing, we arrange after-school and weekend play dates so there's room to breathe, work, or simply rest — while children build confidence of their own.

Big brother / big sister. We pair older children with mentors who model stability and healthy fun, offering a positive outlet before pain finds a destructive one.