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Jul 9, 2020 · Deborah Feldman, 33, whose book “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots” was made this year into a Netflix series, said her former husband contacted her to say he too was...
Apr 2, 2014 · Feldman’s first book, “Unorthodox,” is a coming-of-age story that recounts growing up in the insular hasidic community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and marrying at a young age. Eventually she...
Her 2012 autobiography, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, tells the story of her escape from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York, and was the basis of the 2020 Netflix miniseries Unorthodox.
Apr 8, 2020 · In Unorthodox, Esty and Yanky's difficulty in consummating their marriage is depicted as a problem specifically with Esty. Though Feldman had similar troubles with her own husband, Eli, some of their difficulty in having sex was a result of Eli's inability to get and maintain an erection.
- Hannah Shaw-Williams
Apr 30, 2020 · But there are other details in Unorthodox that are different from Feldman’s real-life experience, including how she left the Hasidic Jewish community–and her husband.
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Apr 17, 2020 · There’s a breathtaking scene in the first episode of Netflix’s Unorthodox, where Ester Shapiro, a 19-year-old Jewish girl who’s just fled the ultra-orthodox Satmar community in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg, joins a group of students at a lake in Berlin.
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Mar 26, 2020 · Feldman and her husband did not consummate their marriage for over a year, due to her struggle with vaginismus, a condition that makes sex painful. She came under close scrutiny from her husband and community members alike, who questioned why Feldman had not gotten pregnant.
