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Manavi

Manavi is a domestic abuse center for South Asian women in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Many of the women who come through the center are Muslim, and coordinators recognize religion as a major factor in battling domestic abuse. Navneet is the executive director.

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Mohammad Qatanani

Imam Mohammad Qatanani of the Islamic Center of Passaic County in Paterson, New Jersey, counsels men on domestic violence.

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Yitzchok Breitowitz

Yitzchok Breitowitz is the rabbi of the Woodside Synagogue in Silver Spring, Md. He speaks on issues of family law and ethics and has delivered talks on men’s anger and the Torah.

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Project Stop Abusive Relationships at Home

Project Stop Abusive Relationships at Home (Project SARAH) is a program of the Jewish Family Services of Clifton-Passaic, New Jersey, that targets domestic violence in Jewish and Russian-speaking homes.

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Tonya Lovelace

Tonya Lovelace of the Women of Color Network in Harrisburg, Pa., spoke at a February 2007 This Far by Faith seminar of the Black Church and Domestic Violence Institute. The network works to eliminate violence against women and families.

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Ted Bunch

Ted Bunch is co-founder with Tony Porter of A Call to Men, an association committed to ending domestic violence against women. It is located in Valley Stream, New York.

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Pamela Cooper-White

Pamela Cooper-White is the Christiane Brooks Johnson Professor Emerita of Psychology and Religion at Union Theological Seminary at New York City. She is the author of The Cry of Tamar: Violence Against Women and the Church’s Response and Gender, Violence and Justice: Collected Essays on Violence Against Women.

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Susan Gregg-Schroeder

The Rev. Susan Gregg-Schroeder is a United Methodist minister in San Diego and coordinator of Mental Health Ministries, an effort that grew from her own experience of depression. She is the author of a paper, “Mental Illness and Families of Faith: How Churches Can Respond.”

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