When your family says no : a memoir : how one woman fled her powerful, ultra-orthodox family and built a life of love and freedom
At 19, Laya Steinberg fell in love and ran away with a non-Jewish man - violating centuries of tradition and religious law. In the wake of ex-communication and an intense campaign to win her back, including private detectives and family spies, she managed to make a new life for herself and her children. Laya's story is the tale of tens of thousands of others, Jewish or otherwise, who choose to lead lives in ways that do not neatly conform to the...
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