“The Price of Truth” is extremely powerful, simultaneously disturbing and inspiring. It should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand the struggle of an abused child to confront incest and to function normally. The author describes what it meant to grow up without any support from her family and her religious community. Yet this not an attack on Judaism. Genendy emerged a committed observant Jew an educator dedicated to transform her community in confronting abuse. It is also a love story proving that one can survive abuse and live a meaningful spiritual existence.
Rabbi Yosef Blau, spiritual supervisor of RIETS, Yeshiva University, and president of the Religious Zionists of America
It took great courage for Genendy to write this wonderful book. Her insights will help the many abuse victims to overcome the shame and emotional paralysis that plagues them. It is the abusers who should feel ashamed; but abusers don’t experience shame; they are too busy making up excuses, lying accusing their victims of being crazy and “imagining things.” Thus, the victims tend to carry all the trauma and scars on their own and are often vilified, rejected and ostracized by those who either refuse to acknowledge that abuse exists or who seek to cover up their own crimes. May this book be a healing for those who have suffered.
Dr. Miriam Adahan, author, psychologist, and founder of EMETT ("Emotional Maturity Established Through Torah")
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