![]() ![]() But having grown up in that world, I can tell you that my experiences are pretty typical. The one I'll never write, because it's far too boring to publish. Instead, I will give you a brief synopsis of my own yeshivish Orthodox memoir. I haven't read it and don't know if I will, having OD'd on the genre. She spent the next few years using her sexuality as a way of attracting the male approval she had been conditioned to seek out as a child, while becoming increasingly unfaithful to the religious dogma of her past. Afraid, in part, that her behavior would affect the marriage prospects of their other children, they put her on a plane and cut off ties.Ĭast out in New York City, without a father or husband tethering her to the Orthodox community, Leah was unprepared to navigate the freedoms of secular life. But the tradition-bound future Leah envisioned for herself was cut short when, at sixteen, she was caught exchanging letters with a male friend, a violation of religious law that forbids contact between members of the opposite sex. ![]() As the daughter of an influential rabbi, Leah and her ten siblings were raised to worship two things: God and the men who ruled their world. Leah Vincent was born into the Yeshivish community, a fundamentalist sect of ultra-Orthodox Judaism. ![]()
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