Chutzpah!
Chutzpah is Yehudis Fletcher’s widely discussed memoir exploring faith, power, identity, and belonging within tightly knit religious communities.
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Drawing on personal experience and reflective analysis, Chutzpah examines the tensions between tradition and autonomy, silence and accountability, and the complex realities of staying within a community while challenging the structures that cause harm. The book addresses themes of faith, sexuality, gender, resilience, and responsibility, situating individual experience within broader cultural and institutional contexts.
The memoir traces Fletcher’s upbringing in an Orthodox Jewish community, her navigation of education, family life, and motherhood, and the experiences that shaped her later work on safeguarding, policy, and institutional reform. Throughout, Chutzpah considers how power operates in religious settings, how harm can be obscured by loyalty or fear, and what it means to remain engaged rather than exit when change feels both necessary and difficult.
Widely read across academic, policy, and faith-based audiences, Chutzpah has contributed to conversations about safeguarding, inclusion, and accountability in religious contexts in the UK and internationally.
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Inviting a Chutzpah presentation
Yehudis is available to deliver talks, lectures, and moderated conversations based on Chutzpah for universities, conferences, faith institutions, and professional audiences.
Book presentations can be tailored to academic, policy, or public-facing contexts and may take the form of keynote lectures, panel discussions, or facilitated Q&A sessions. Topics commonly explored include safeguarding in hierarchical or religious settings, the relationship between faithand authority, and the challenges of institutional change.
If you are interested in inviting Yehudis to present Chutzpah at your organisation or event, please get in touch to discuss audience, format, and scope.
