Deborah Feldman
My 'Unorthodox' Journey to Berlin
From Hasidic upbringing in Williamsburg to bestselling memoir author: Deborah Feldman’s life trajectory is best described as unusual. Now she writes about her adventures in Berlin.
It Was an Un-Orthodox Year
Books by and about Jews who leave Orthodoxy reached a critical mass in 2014. Will readers keep turning the pages of the ex-Hasidic tell all?
Susan Reimer-Torn on Coming Back To Jewish Life
In her new memoir, ‘Maybe Not Such a Good Girl: Reflections on Rupture and Return,’ Susan Reimer-Torn chronicles her return ton Jewish life in New York.
Ex-Hasidic Writers Go Off the Path and Onto the Page
People who leave the ultra-Orthodox world have become a social movement. And the stories of their transformations are now a rich literary genre, Ezra Glinter writes.
My 'Exodus'
Deborah Feldman’s new memoir ‘Exodus’ tells of her search for a place to call home. But she leaves out some key details, according to Frimet Goldberger, who knew the author well.
Deborah Feldman Isn't Telling You the Whole Story
Deborah Feldman’s new memoir ‘Exodus’ tells of her search for a place to call home. But she leaves out some key details, according to Frimet Goldberger, who knew the author well.
Caught Between Two Worlds
The allure of the forbidden is ever-present in Anouk Markovits’s English-language debut, ‘I Am Forbidden.’ The story is a deeply felt account of people caught between worlds.
'Salon' Preview: A Feminist Icon Goes There
Leave it to feminist icon Letty Cottin Pogrebin to spice things up. On the new episode of The Jewish Channel series “The Salon,” a conversation about the so-called “war on women” leads Pogrebin to discuss the power of the female orgasm:
In Praise of the New Ex-Hasidic Reality Show
My friends and I are celebrating the news that a group of our friends — all former ultra-Orthodox Jews, or maskilim — are getting their own reality show.
Why I'm Shopping Around My 'Ex-Frum' Memoir
Gavriella, I understand from this Sisterhood post that you don’t like the questions you’re getting in the wake of the publication of Deborah Feldman’s memoir and Pearlperry Reich’s television appearance about leaving the ultra-Orthodox world. I understand that you may feel attacked, when these women criticize their communities of origin.