Proceeding with the U.S. Peace Plan Can Breathe New Life into the Two-State Solution while Respecting the Will of the Israeli People
The mother of all democratic verdicts.
May 8, 2020
If “Unorthodox” Gets Something Right, It’s That the Exotic Jew Is Always a Hot Commodity
The queasy transaction of the ex-Orthodox narrative.
Released in March, the Netflix miniseries Unorthodox tells the story of a young ḥasidic girl who runs away from her community, and her marriage, in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn to start a new life in, of all places, Berlin. The show, based loosely on Deborah Feldman’s memoir of the same name, has received fawning reviews in the Washington Post and the New York Times, and much discussion in the Jewish press. A scholar of Jewish literature and herself a former Orthodox Jew, Naomi Seidman derides the “baselessly confident judgments” of those who praised Unorthodox for its supposed accuracy, and compares the show to some of its literary antecedents:
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For the BBC, Anti-Semitism Is Just Another Political Opinion
The case of John Ashton.
China’s Policies of Repression May Be Fueling Jihadism
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Jewish Organizations Shouldn’t Be Fighting against Religious Liberty
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If “Unorthodox” Gets Something Right, It’s That the Exotic Jew Is Always a Hot Commodity
The queasy transaction of the ex-Orthodox narrative.