Did you hear about the new memoir by Deborah Feldman, “Unorthodox,” which is the sad and shocking tale of a lesbian who escaped her miserable, oppressive life in a New York Hasidic Jewish community?

I’m still so worried about Deborah Feldman, the young woman who fled the Satmar Hasidic community in Brooklyn with her small son in tow, and a flood of childhood memories, both horrifying and ...

(JTA) — The TV series “Unorthodox” took the world by storm in 2020. Now, recent comments about Israel by the story’s Berlin-based Jewish heroine, author Deborah Feldman, have created a storm of ...

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The wildly popular Netflix series “Unorthodox,” based on Deborah Feldman’s best-selling 2009 memoir of the same name, is only part of Feldman’s story. Yes, she was born into a repressive Brooklyn ...

Many criticisms have been leveled against the memoir as a genre: that it is narcissistic and exhibitionistic, that it is rife with betrayals and that, because it relies on faulty memory, it is ...