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Yael Schoultz founded a group called L’Chaim, which counsels and supports sex workers. (Courtesy of Yael Schoultz via JTA.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dinah Spritzer<\/p>\n

PRAGUE \u00a0\u2014 Not long after she puts away her silver Shabbat candlesticks and home-baked challah, Yael Schoultz walks through a cavernous hallway, and up a set of gray concrete stairs. Past a door, she finds a group of heavily made-up women in red and black G-strings and spike heels, listlessly beckoning men for sex in return for cash.<\/p>\n

Schoultz, 43, spotted about 30 women at the Prague brothel floating from room to room in various states of undress \u2014 negligees, see-through bras \u2014 with accents as varied as their lipstick shades. Some are smiling, some appear bored as they play games on their phones, others are trying to woo potential clients with a simple, \u201cCome have a good time, come to my room.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a typical Saturday night post-Shabbat routine for Schoultz, an Orthodox Jewish South African who recently launched\u00a0L\u2019Chaim<\/a>, an organization dedicated to helping sex workers in the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n

Schoultz and her colleagues engage the women with friendly banter about health and the weather, careful not to interrupt those with customers. The L\u2019Chaim volunteers collectively carry a few hundred free condoms along with high-end soaps and hand-crafted bracelets.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe girls always ask for extras for their friends,\u201d Schoultz said.<\/p>\n

Schoultz, who has been visiting Czech brothels since she moved to Prague in 2011, is not a mere purveyor of gifts. Her goal is to establish a rapport with the women she meets so that they can leave the business of sex work if they so wish. And her Jewish faith is a core driver of Schoultz\u2019s quest to provide a better life for the sex workers.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the women have been trafficked,\u201d she explained, referring to the term governments and human rights advocates use to describe a contemporary form of slavery. \u201cThere are girls who were tied up for days and raped, even by the police. Some might seem to be in the brothel voluntarily, but not really, because they owe a lot of money on a debt and feel sex work is the only way they can pay it back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dressed in black from head to toe, in what a fashion magazine might describe as\u00a0modest<\/a>\u00a0goth<\/a>, Schoultz is a veteran of global anti-trafficking efforts. A few decades ago, while teaching English in South Korea, Schoultz volunteered for an organization that was trying to stop the trafficking of North Korean women to China. At the same time, she was getting a master\u2019s in theology and wanted to move to Europe to get her doctorate, which she did at Prague\u2019s International Baptist Theological Seminary.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I got to the Czech Republic, I started looking for people who were working on the trafficking issue and found three women: a Catholic nun and two Protestant missionaries. All of them were in their 60s,\u201d Schoultz said.<\/p>\n

Schoultz asked if she could join them in their visits to brothels.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just went in and started talking to women, about really anything. Language wasn\u2019t a barrier because most sex workers speak English,\u201d she recalled. \u201cBut it was a bit weird walking into these places with a nun in full habit.\u201d<\/p>\n

After a few months Schoultz began to feel uncomfortable\u00a0\u2014 not with the sex workers, but with her philanthropic colleagues\u2019 proselytizing and \u201creligious agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t interested in giving out Virgin Mary medallions,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Schoultz, who teaches English at an international school in Prague, started her own informal volunteer group to help sex workers in 2012, while also embarking on a deeply personal Jewish journey.<\/p>\n

Although she believes her father has \u201cJewish ancestry,\u201d Schoultz was brought up in a Protestant home. Still, she long maintained a deep interest and connection to Judaism which intensified when she pursued her studies in theology. For several years, she regularly attended Orthodox services at the 13th-century Old New Synagogue, and after completing an Orthodox conversion in 2021 with Israeli rabbi David Bohbot, she volunteered in the Prague Jewish Community\u2019s social services department. She has now begun her master\u2019s degree in Jewish Studies at the\u00a0Ashkenazium<\/a>\u00a0in Budapest, a division of the secular\u00a0Milton Friedman University<\/a>\u00a0operated by the Hasidic Chabad-Lubavitch movement.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the beginning when I knew I wanted to make the conversion, Orthodox Judaism was something I agreed with theologically, it is where I felt most comfortable,\u201d said Shoultz, who describes herself as Modern Orthodox.<\/p>\n

Rabbi Bohbot praised Schoultz\u2019s dedication. \u201cThis work she does is noble, and isn\u2019t that what most big religions are based on? Showing love and respect for others?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Bohbot\u2019s reaction to what some might deem as controversial work was typical of his Orthodox colleagues, according to Schoultz. \u201cNo one from the kehilah was ever against me helping sex workers,\u201d she said, using the Hebrew word for community.<\/p>\n

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Schoultz completed an Orthodox conversion to Judaism in 2020. (Courtesy of Yael Schoultz via JTA.org)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Last year, Schoultz achieved another transitional milestone: obtaining Czech government recognition of L\u2019Chaim as a registered nonprofit.<\/p>\n

Although L\u2019Chaim is a secular organization, Schoultz sees her work through the lens of\u00a0tikkun olam<\/a>, the rabbinical command to repair the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like as a Jewish person, you\u2019re supposed to bring light to the world,\u201d said Schoultz. \u201cAnd the sex industry is very dark, because even if you choose to be a sex worker, it\u2019s not a job that anybody really enjoys as the customers are often drunk or abusive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt might sound strange, but I feel very connected to Hashem when I am in the brothel, because he is there for me, and for these women too,\u201d she added, using the preferred Orthodox Hebrew term for god.<\/p>\n

Schoultz\u2019s co-volunteers, who are mostly not Jewish, are aware of her commitment to the faith.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter Yael started getting serious about Judaism, she found her path, she was more complete and found her purpose,\u201d said Natalia Synelnykova, who worked with Schoultz to launch L\u2019Chaim. \u201cEveryone would say that their friends are unique, but I have rarely met someone who is so human-centered as Yael, and that is definitely linked to how she sees Judaism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schoultz named her new organization L\u2019Chaim \u2014 to life, in Hebrew \u2014 as a message to those she seeks to help.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want the women in the brothels to have a life because a lot of them feel like they don\u2019t have any life, like they\u2019re barely making it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

There are about 100 brothels in Prague,\u00a0according to media reports<\/a>, and\u00a0roughly 13,0000 sex workers in the Czech Republic<\/a>, of which about half are thought to be single mothers. Although sex work is legal, pimping is not, so the brothels operate in a murky legal area that legislators have been trying to address for decades.<\/p>\n

Once a\u00a0hotspot for human trafficking<\/a>, today the Czech Republic has a\u00a0relatively low rate of human sex slavery<\/a>\u00a0according to government statistics. But Schoultz said the numbers are misleading.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one really knows how many trafficked women there are in the country,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0U.S. State Department report<\/a>\u00a0praised the Czech Republic\u2019s efforts to limit trafficking but also noted that the country is more focused on prosecutions of criminals rather than on helping victims. Their stories stay with Schoultz.<\/p>\n

\u201cI meet many Nigerian women who may not be locked up in a room, but they are locked up by Juju,\u201d she said, referring to a form of\u00a0\u201cblack magic\u201d that some Nigerian traffickers reportedly use to scare women into prostitution<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She also counsels \u201cRomanian girls who are initially romanced by men that turn out to be traffickers.\u201d A man will have many women he calls \u201cwives,\u201d and each one has a baby with him, \u201cThe women give him all their money to support the baby who he keeps as a form of collateral in Romania,\u201d Schoultz said.<\/p>\n

(Shoultz turned down JTA\u2019s request for contacts of sex workers she has helped, noting that this would violate L\u2019Chaim\u2019s promise of confidentiality).<\/p>\n

The Czech Republic\u2019s leading anti-trafficking organization,\u00a0La Strada<\/a>, takes a different orientation towards sex work than L\u2019Chaim, focusing on it more as a legitimate profession that should be organized and regulated.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe women are fully able to decide for themselves if they want to be sex workers and our goal is to provide safety for those who do so, to help them organize, fight stigma and have the rights of all other workers,\u201d said Marketa Hronkova, La Strada\u2019s director. La Strada defines trafficking strictly as those who are physically coerced or blackmailed into providing labor.<\/p>\n

Hronkova said there are many sex workers who choose their profession willingly and that it is patronizing and often damaging when those who say they want to help focus exclusively on \u201cpushing women to exit a path they have chosen, as if they have no minds of their own.\u201d<\/p>\n

The alternative to sex work, for a single mother, can often put her in an even worse financial situation, she noted. \u201cOur goal is to make sex work safe, not to get women to stop doing it,\u201d said Hromkova.<\/p>\n

Concerning L\u2019Chaim, she said as long as its aim was listening to women, and not making them feel ashamed, it could be helpful. La Strada already cooperates with another Czech organization,\u00a0Pleasure Without Risk<\/a>, which maintains a neutral stance towards sex work and provides women with access to testing for sexually transmitted diseases as well as counseling.<\/p>\n

L\u2019Chaim\u2019s goal, Schoultz explained, is to identify who might be trafficked and provide them with the confidence and practical resources to rebuild their lives. But since getting access to the women requires earning the trust of brothel owners and managers, L\u2019Chaim doesn\u2019t advertise itself as an anti-trafficking group.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe show up as providing support to women in prostitution, that gets us in the door,\u201d she reflected. L\u2019Chaim has about a dozen volunteers.<\/p>\n

It can take Schoultz six months of relationship building before she finds out what brought the client into sex work.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe start by talking about her kids, talking about her dogs,\u201d said Schoultz \u201cand eventually their stories come out, many involving abuse, trauma and mental health problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

She estimated that at the 13 or so brothels she regularly visits in Prague and Brno, at least half the sex workers were not there on a fully voluntary basis.<\/p>\n

In the future, Schoultz hopes to create trafficking awareness campaigns and help the customers of sex workers recognize the signs that a woman is working against her will.<\/p>\n

The brothel owners are not always pleasant to deal with, Scholtz acknowledged.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt one place an owner came behind me and kissed me on the back of my neck. It was really creepy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

And despite her modest dress, or tznius, in keeping with her Orthodox values, she said she was pursued by a brothel customer to participate in \u201cgroup sex.\u201d She fended him off calmly by explaining that she \u201coffered services, but not those kinds of services.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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