CALL YOURSELF A MENSCH?

Our Call Yourself A Mensch Campaign is a unique campaign to attract men, supported by the Prime Minister and the Gordon Brown.

This unique campaign invites men to take a stand against domestic violence in the Jewish community and to support our educational work in schools with young male teenagers. JWA wants to stop the violence before it starts which is why our education programmes in schools, aimed at different ages, are so important.

The Call Yourself A Mensch Campaign calls upon men to sign up to a declaration deploring domestic violence and reaffirming traditional Jewish teachings on the treatment of women in marriage and the home. One in four women will experience some form of domestic violence during their lifetime and the Jewish community is no different.

An initiative of a group of male partners of JWA supporters, the Call Yourself A Mensch Campaign launched with a full-page advertisement in the Jewish Chronicle listing over 120 founder signatories to the campaign and inviting other men to join them. Signatories of the advertisement also include Gordon Brown MP and Prime Minister David Cameron MP, as well as all the rabbinical heads of the major synagogue movements.

JWA Campaign Chair Hilda Worth says, “The Jewish community needs to wake up to the scale of domestic violence and do more to help combat it. This is a unique and hugely positive initiative where men can show their abhorrence of domestic violence and support our educational work with young men.”

The campaign was also be promoted through a series of events with the business community where other men were invited to sign up and sponsor the work of the charity.

If you would like to join the Call Yourself A Mensch Campaign, please email us now.