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Author: Yehudis Fletcher

Who cares about the women?

January 9, 2020 Yehudis Fletcher

A guest post by Shmuli Simon. Parashas Vayechi marks the completion of Sefer Bereshis. That’s a significant piece of Torah…

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Faith in the face of abuse

March 27, 2019 Yehudis Fletcher

Listen to a recording of a talk given by Yehudis Fletcher on sexual abuse and faith.

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‘Today I am a woman…’: Rewriting our batmitzvah speeches

Yehudis Fletcher

The speech you give when you’re 12 doesn’t always reflect the Jewish woman you grow up to be. On International…

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Posted in: Articles Filed under: batmitzva, feminism, hineni, women

Kinah: From A Survivor Of Child Sexual Abuse

Yehudis Fletcher

The following poem is a contemporary kinah, lamentation, written in commemoration of Tisha b’Av, the fast which commemorates the destruction…

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On abuse, we haven’t even started talking

Yehudis Fletcher

I live my life fairly publicly in some respects, hoping people learn from the mistakes made when I was sexually abused…

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Posted in: Articles Filed under: abuse, communication, sex abuse

#ItsNotOK: The community’s response can hurt more than the abuse

Yehudis Fletcher

From the 4th to the 10th of February, police forces, local authorities, third sector workers, activists and individuals across the UK will…

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Posted in: Articles Filed under: abuse, communication, faith, sex abuse

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pnahamu Project Nahamu @pnahamu ·
1 Feb

Yehudis Fletcher asks us to focus on the systemic nature of misogynistic crime - rather than on individual predators.

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My statement to @JewishNewsUK on their update on police investigation into Chaim Halpern: https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/police-drop-investigation-into-sexual-abuse-claims-against-rabbi-chaim-halpern/

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21 Nov

'What hits me like a boot to my gut is the rejection of these values from ...people with
access to education and personal autonomy who help themselves to all the benefits of progress yet deny
those rights to others. @YehudisFletcher for @haaretzcom https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2022-11-21/ty-article-opinion/.premium/how-feminists-are-failing-haredi-women/00000184-91c8-d53f-a5fe-bbca33510000

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pnahamu Project Nahamu @pnahamu ·
21 Oct

Nahamu welcomes the recommendations relating to mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse in the @InquiryCSA Report

We believe that some of the measures should go further.

We urgently need a regime with teeth.

Read and retweet!

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pnahamu Project Nahamu @pnahamu ·
21 Sep

'Theft of public funds (including benefits) has become socially normalised even halachically justified to to support the expensive Chassidic lifestyle', writes @EveSacks for @JewishNewsUK.

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-its-not-antisemitic-to-ask-why-chassidic-boys-arent-entitled-to-literacy/

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pnahamu Project Nahamu @pnahamu ·
31 Aug

"My work has never been about dismantling the shidduch system...it has been about ensuring safety and autonomy within it, so that our traditions can be preserved for future generations", writes @YehudisFletcher
https://forward.com/opinion/515876/forced-marriage-is-all-too-common-in-my-haredi-community/

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yehudisfletcher YehudisFletcher @yehudisfletcher ·
28 Jun

From today, rabbis (and other faith leaders) will be included in the 'position of trust' legislation, meaning it is against the law for them to have a sexual relationship with 16 and 17 year olds.
@YehudisG and others have campaigned on this for years.

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