The High Price of Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Life - The New York Times
Taffy Brodesser-Akner
My mother has long told me that she did it because she wanted her daughters to have a life that wasn’t cheap and immodest — that she found secular culture was becoming too crass my sisters tell me it makes their lives more meaningful.
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