One Man's Journey from Survivor to Advocate with Joshua Safran.

Three years ago, Jewish Family Service introduced attorney Joshua Safran to San Diego in a presentation of the documentary Crime After Crime, which chronicled his seven‐year struggle to free a brutally abused woman from prison.

This October, in support of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, JFS brings Joshua back -- this time to share his story about his mother’s harrowing experience with domestic abuse. In Free Spirit: Growing Up On the Road and Off the Grid, Safran has written a memoir recounting hitchhiking across the American West with his wiccan, revolutionary mother and standing up to his violent, alcoholic stepfather. His story reveals how he overcame adversity, reconnected to his Jewish heritage, became a lawyer, and went from survivor to advocate.

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