Dozens of survivors, activists and supporters gathered in Brooklyn to eat, dance and show haredi leadership that they aren't going away. Food donated by the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty and other groups was distributed, both to survivors of child sex abuse and spousal abuse who attended and others who could not.
VOJ head Mark Appel, Rabbi Yosef Blau and Rabbi Gershon Tannenbaum
Pearl Engelman, left; Rebbetzin Perlow, the wife of the Novominsker Rebbe, the head of Agudath Israel of America's Council of Torah Sages, the Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah, center. Rabbi Perlow, however, and the rest of Agudah's leadership did not attend.