2023 Tenenbaum Family Lecture Series in Judaic Studies

Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age

What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing your doubts would cause you to lose your family and the only way of life you had ever known? Anthropologist Ayala Fader shares the heart-wrenching dilemmas of married ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and women in New York who secretly explore the outside world, in person and online, in English and Yiddish, while remaining in their communities to protect those they love.