Conflating her non-Chasidic community in Monsey, New York, with Chasidic communities is typical of these distortions.įor half a decade now, I’ve been involved in efforts to counter negative stereotypes about ex-Orthodox people and promote openness, understanding and acceptance between those who leave and their families and communities. In depicting Julia Haart’s life as a fashion mogul, the show provides details about the Orthodox community she left but without appropriate context, and sometimes with outright lies. Presumably a story of ex-Orthodox empowerment, it has exactly the opposite effect. We do not share data with third party vendors.īut while many object to its depiction of Orthodoxy, my complaint is with its treatment of the ex-Orthodox. In All Who Go Do Not Return, Deen bravely traces his harrowing loss of faith, while offering an illuminating look at a highly secretive world.Get Jewish Exponent's Newsletter by email and never miss our top stories His relationship with his family at stake, he is forced into a life of deception, and begins a long struggle to hold on to those he loves most: his five children. Now a heretic, he fears being discovered and ostracized from the only world he knows. Soon he begins a feverish inquiry into the tenets of his religious beliefs, until, several years later, his faith unravels entirely.
Deen's first transgression-turning on the radio-is small, but his curiosity leads him to the library, and later the Internet. His marriage at eighteen is arranged and several children soon follow. As a member of the Skverers, one of the most insular Hasidic sects in the US, he knows little about the outside world-only that it is to be shunned. Shulem Deen was raised to believe that questions are dangerous. A moving and revealing exploration of ultra-Orthodox Judaism and one man's loss of faith
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