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Podcast: UnHerd with Freddie Sayers
Episode: Louise Leach: my journey from secular to Orthodox
Description: Over the last year, two big Netflix series have featured women in Orthodox Jewish communities. ‘Unorthodox’ told the fictional story of a young woman from a Hasidic community in Brooklyn, outside New York, who escapes to Europe to join her mother and pursue a career in music. ‘My Orthodox Life’, tracks a real life fashion entrepreneur who begins her life in the orthodox community but decides, rather like the heroine of Unorthodox, to leave the community behind.In each case, the communities are presented as somewhat sexist, conformist, stifling — and the happy ending consists of the women leaving th...