Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age

Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age

1pm PDT

What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause you to lose your family and the only way of life you had ever known? Join author and anthropologist Ayala Fader in discussion with AJU's Relationship Manager of the Miller Introduction to Judaism Program, Deb Engel Kollin, exploring the wrenching stories of married ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and women in twenty-first-century New York who lead “double lives” in order to protect those they love. To purchase the book, please click here. Use the discount code BT-FG to get 30% off and free shipping worldwide. 

Ayala Fader received her PhD from New York University and is currently Professor of Anthropology at Fordham University. She is the author of the award-winning book Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn (Princeton 2009). The National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities supported her latest book, Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age (2020). Fader is the co-founder and co-convener of the New York Working Group on Jewish Orthodoxies at Fordham’s Jewish Studies Program.

Deb Engel Kollin serves as the Relationship Manager for the Miller Introduction to Judaism Program. Deb previously spent twelve years as Director of Operations for Pressman Academy, and has worked in various settings in Los Angeles and Israel as a Jewish educator and community builder for decades. She holds an MA in Jewish Education from American Jewish University.