Yehudis Fletcher

June 18, 2025, 12:16 pm

Charedi sex offender living opposite children’s playground in Manchester

Todros Grynhaus was jailed for 13 years in 2015 after a campaign of sexual abuse against two teenage girls

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

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February 20, 2025, 3:06 pm

OPINION: Parents in the Charedi community do NOT have genuine choice in their children’s education

Emily Green, founder of GesherEU’s responds to claims that the School Bill attacks religious freedom and parental rights

By Emily Green

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

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

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

Purim celebration in Stamford Hill. Photo: Alan Denney

March 11, 2023, 7:50 pm

OPINION: Like many Charedi women, not driving a car is entirely my decision

Stamford Hill educator Malky Davidovits responds to a recent column by Yehudis Fletcher on Charedi women not driving, writing: "It's my choice, not my husband’s or any other man’s. Why deny my agency?"

By Malky Davidovits

An ultra Orthodox Jewish man walks past women wearing costumes from the TV series 'The Handmaid's Tale' during an anti-government protest at a train station in Jerusalem, Israel, 01 March 2023. People have been protesting all over the country against the government’s justice system reform. EPA-EFE/ABIR SULTAN

March 9, 2023, 12:04 pm

OPINION: Is International Women’s Day all talk and no trousers?

Women have been allocated one day among 365 for global appreciation. Are we doing ourselves a huge disservice with such twee tokenism?

By Michelle Rosenberg

May 16, 2022, 1:52 pm

Sex abuse survivor ‘won’t forgive’ those who enabled perpetrator as he is released

Yehudis Fletcher, now a campaigner for support for victims, fumes as Parole Board pushes ahead with release of Todros Grynhaus today

By Justin Cohen and 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

June 11, 2021, 2:47 pm

OPINION: JFS kids have spoken – I cry for other children who are being silenced

Yehudis Fletcher responds to turmoil in Jewish schools and the need for better safeguarding

By Yehudis Fletcher

March 25, 2021, 5:43 pm

Charedim ‘othered’ by rest of community, campaigner tells David Baddiel

Activist Yehudis Fletcher engages in lively discussion with author and comedian David Baddiel about differences within the community in wake of their Twitter row over Charedim

By Jenni Frazer

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.

Helen Reddy in 1973 on the The Carol Burnett Show. (Wikipedia/Author CBS Television/ Permission: PD-PRE1978.
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October 1, 2020, 3:38 pm

OPINION: I am woman, watch me grow

Yehudis Fletcher reflects how her mother inspired her to think for herself, drawing upon the feminist icon and singer Helen Reddy who died this week

By Yehudis Fletcher

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!

Charedim. (Photo by Kish Kim / Sipa USA)

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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