Nahamu

May 18, 2025, 12:39 am

Chutzpah and courage: How Yehudis Fletcher won her fight to be heard

In Chutzpah: A Memoir of Faith, Sexuality and Daring to Stay, the author and campaigner recounts how she helped jail her abuser, exposed failures of rabbinic authority and found strength in the community that once turned its back

By Etan Smallman

Charedi women; (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

September 9, 2024, 7:24 pm

OPINION: The denial of education in the Charedi community is a human rights issue

'I left school to attend university, whereas some graduate into early marriage and motherhood', writes activist Eve Sacks

By Eve Sacks

Charedi protesters wearing yellow stars in protest against proposed governmental regulation of religious schools

September 9, 2024, 1:19 pm

Jewish group urges government to tackle Charedi ‘education deficit’

Nahamu warns home-schooled strictly-Orthodox children and those attending yeshivas cannot read and write or understand basic mathematics

By Sandy Rashty

May 25, 2023, 3:42 pm

OPINION: A step in the right direction for educational reform

The proposed 'Children Not in School' register is NOT "an attack on Torah education' but a meaningful move to ensure, literally, that all Charedi children count, writes Yehudis Fletcher

By Yehudis Fletcher

A Charedi wedding. Photo by Yaakov Lederman/Flash90

April 27, 2023, 11:51 am

OPINION: Does the Bloom Review into faith go far enough?

In the wake of the landmark government faith report, Yehudis Fletcher argues we should never settle for intolerable harms in the name of religious tolerance

By Yehudis Fletcher

April 27, 2023, 10:59 am

Charedi ‘forced’ marriage misunderstood in government faith engagement report

More than 21,000 people responded to a landmark public consultation launched in 2019 by independent faith engagement advisor Colin Bloom.

By Michelle Rosenberg

Young Orthodox Jewish men in Stamford Hill.

January 25, 2023, 11:34 am

OPINION: I felt humiliated in Stamford Hill #BecauseImfemale

Eve Sacks, co-chair of trustees of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance UK, calls for a communal awareness campaign for mainstream British Jewry to understand honour-based abuse.

By Eve Sacks

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May 29, 2022, 10:55 am

OPINION: Nahamu co-founder: Education bill can ensure rounded outlook for Charedim

EVE SACKS welcomes the prospect of new legislation which would ensure homeschooled children are properly registered and all schools are fully licensed

By Toby Porter

Charedim. (Photo by Kish Kim / Sipa USA)

May 15, 2022, 11:19 am

Campaigners against unregulated schools back clampdown in Queen’s Speech

Children will be better protected and receive a more fully rounded education, following pressure from project Nahamu

By Toby Porter

June 23, 2021, 3:13 pm

Forced marriage advice to be translated into Yiddish for Charedi women

The government has pledged that advice leaflets on forced marriages will be translated into Yiddish amid concern of prevalence in strictly-Orthodox community.

By Josh Salisbury

March 18, 2021, 2:13 pm

David Baddiel and Charedi campaigner to take part in JW3 clash of ideologies

Jewish News debate with JW3 is organised following the pair’s clash on social media in January.

February 8, 2021, 4:21 pm

Document on prevalence of forced Charedi marriages handed to government

Testimony from those within the Chasidic community claim many arranged Jewish marriages are in violation of British law.

By Ellie Jacobs

June 3, 2020, 6:06 pm

Forty Under 40: Our top 10 take a bow!

From community leaders and political activists, to LGBT and mental health campaigners, TV hosts and top legal minds, we identify those set to shape the community for years to come!

January 15, 2020, 12:20 pm

Group challenging extremism inside the community to launch this month

Nahamu seeks to 'ensure harms caused by inward-facing extremism are recognised and addressed, rather than swept under the carpet'

By Jenni Frazer

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