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October 25, 2017

Ex-Ḥasidim Come to Netflix

Not a hatchet job.

The recently released documentary One of Us tells the stories of three American Jews who left their ḥasidic communities. Although he expected the film to be an “over-the-top hatchet job,” Yitzchok Adlerstein, an Orthodox rabbi, found that it managed to shine a favorable light not only on its subjects but also on the communities they left. And, he concludes, it rightly raises some troubling questions:

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