Human trafficking is a $32 billion annual business, with an estimated 70 percent generated by sex trafficking.
ATZUM’s founder and director Rabbi Levi Lauer participated in a powerful conference hosted by UJA-Federation’s Task force on Family Violence, which ATZUM’s Task Force on Human Trafficking helped to organize. Rabbi Lauer and other conference participants are interviewed in this video entitled We Were Slaves: the Jewish Community Unites Against Sex Trafficking.
This 3-minute video explains the urgent need for this initiative and delivers the resounding message: Sex trafficking is our problem and we, the Jewish community, can take steps to stop it.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTkW4m02EZ0[/youtube]
Atzum’s Founding Executive Director Levi Lauer is featured in this video (starting at 2:34)
“Sex trafficking is an abuse of the Divine image, into which every human being was born,” is his core message.
You can learn more about this Jewish communal initiative here: http://www.ujafedny.org/advocate/
