In case anybody was interested, @[email protected]' book, Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood won the memoir category of the National Jewish Book Awards, announced yesterday at the inaugural Books That Changed My Life Festival.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/HareianiBlog/status/1616172073239576577
Thread. @[email protected]' book of being sexually abused at a UJA camp was described by @[email protected] Book Review as
"A searing, haunting, urgent cri du coeur.”
We must listen to abuse survivors, lift up their stories.
This award is a big deal. We must treat it as such.
SILENCE BREAKERS DO SACRED WORK
Now let’s create a world that enables survivors to get care, loving support & justice without having to do the exhausting emotional labor of putting themselves all the way out there (because definitely now nothing happens if they don’t).
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg