Ear­li­er this week, Leah Lax wrote about Glo­ria Steinem named her book. The author of Uncov­ered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Final­ly Came Home, she has been blog­ging…

Ear­li­er this week, Leah Lax wrote about the lone­li­ness of leav­ing Hasidut and cop­ing with com­ing home to the world of her child­hood. She is blog­ging here all week as…

Leah Lax joined the Hasidic com­mu­ni­ty when she was six­teen years old, leav­ing thir­ty years lat­er and com­ing out as a les­bian. She shares her expe­ri­ence in her…