What Happened to Heather Hopkowitz
reviewdate:
Aug 20 2019
isn:
978-0827605206
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The Chosen
reviewdate:
Aug 12 2018
isn:
9780449213445
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Here and There: Leaving Hasidism, Keeping My Family
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Oct 21 2017
isn:
9780805243185
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Unorthodox: the Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
reviewdate:
Aug 29 2017
isn:
9781439187029
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Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood
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With no men around, there was no law against nudity, but modesty had insatiable demands.
reviewdate:
Jun 9 2015
isn:
9780143127413
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Gravity
About an Jewish Orthodox lesbian teenager, this book couldn't possibly have lived up to its promise. I won't bother telling you not to read it, because I know you will anyway. It's not bad; it's just not as great as you want it to be.
reviewdate:
Sep 17 2010
isn:
978-1-55469-049-7
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Disobedience
Coincidentally, like the last book I read, this one is by an author who left (escaped from?) an insular community in England and then returned to it. The Killing Jar took place in crime-ridden Nottingham, and Disobedience in Orthodox Jewish Hendon. I say "coincidentally" because I found Disobedience browsing in my new branch of the NYPL, Hamilton Fish. Moving is traumatic; I'm going to miss Tompkins Square.
Moving was not traumatic for Ronit Krushka, who left the Orthodox community over which her father presided as Rabbi.
reviewdate:
Mar 12 2010
isn:
978-0-7432-9156-9