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While few self-identify as a heretic, the stories in this engaging collection by Fader (anthropology, Fordham Univ.; Mitzvah Girls) document those who openly—albeit, in a covert way—accept this label, and a suffocating system of Jewish religious laws and practices that ultimately fails them. This double life, aided in large measure by the anonymity of social media, is the basis for Fader's ethnographic study of kofrim (heretics): those who experienc...Log In or Sign Up to Read More