《就此解放》！曾賣淫、割腕美女逆轉人生　擁哈佛高學歷

NOWnews – 2014年1月28日 上午11:06

Leah Vincent is an American author

Early life and education

Leah Miller was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by a Yeshivish Jewish family. She was a student at Brooklyn College from 2002 to 2007. She graduated from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government with a Master of Public Policy degree as a Pforzheimer Fellow in 2009.^[1][2]

Career

In her January 2014 memoir, Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood, published by Nan A. Talese, Vincent describes her own experience leaving the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community and how she herself came to lead a self-determined life.

Vincent is an advocate for reform within the Orthodox Jewish community and for the empowerment of former Orthodox Jews seeking a self-determined life. She has spoken out on issues of abuse in the Orthodox community.^[3]

Vincent is both a member and a board member of Footsteps, an organization that serves former ultra-Orthodox Jews who seek to enter or explore the world beyond the Jewish communities in which they were raised.^[4] Her blogs calling for reform have been published by the Huffington Post, Unpious,^[5] and Zeek.^[6] In July 2013, in partnership with Footsteps and the UJA-Federation of New York, Vincent coordinated and hosted an event with a panel of rabbis from across the spectrum of progressive Jewish communities, the title of the event was “Beyond Romanticization and Vilification”. Vincent's speech as well as the ensuing panel discussion were broadcast by Shalom TV.^[7]

She is also a co-producer of the It Gets Besser Project, a website which, imitating the methodology of the It Gets Better project, aims to give hope to individuals struggling with the choice of leaving the ultra-Orthodox world.^[8]

Publications

• Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood published by Nan A. Talese, January 2014

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah_Vincent

脫離極端正統猶太教後，文森穿襯衫不必扣到頸項、也能戴飾品。翻攝臉書

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【李寧怡╱綜合外電報導】生在極端正統猶太教家庭的31歲美國女子文森（Leah Vincent），畢業於哈佛大學，婚姻幸福，育有1女。她在新出版的自傳《就此解放》（暫譯，Cut Me Loose）透露，在經歷被逐出家門、濫交甚至賣淫的坎坷路途，才走到今天。
生長於匹茲堡的文森在11名手足中排行第5，自幼被教育要謙卑、服從父親和丈夫、嚴禁和未婚男子接觸。16歲那年，保守的父母發現她和男生通信、還買了貼身毛衣，對她忍無可忍。為了不影響其他女兒找對象，父母在她17歲時將她送到紐約，從此切斷金援。

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曾同時仰藥割腕

頓時從與世隔絕的正統猶太教生活來到紐約，文森無所適從，初夜遭強暴後，她自問：「這就是性嗎？」她經歷多段糟糕的感情，曾同時仰藥及割腕，住進精神病院。由於失去童貞就被教徒視為娼妓，她甚至曾嘗試援交賺錢。
混亂生活中，教育是唯一救贖。她拿到全額獎學金進入布魯克林學院，在此遇上首段「健康」的感情：對象是年長42歲的已婚教授。他鼓勵她發表對各領域的意見，建立自信，終於取得哈佛大學研究所的全額獎學金。文森說：「能在人生旅程中倖存，過自己選擇的生活，我每天都為此深深感激。」

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