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A NYC conference celebrates the cultural creativity of formerly Orthodox Jews
A haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, leader once joked to me that “few people leave Orthodoxy, but every one of them writes a book about it.” It was a sardonic comment about popular works by Jews documenting their break with the “frum,” or religious, lifestyle, …