![]() ![]() He does this for the sake of his children, for family harmony, and to protect those he loves. ![]() ![]() Of course, one can tan one's skin or wear colored contacts, and Deen, a married father of five by the time his doubts have fully crystallized, tries to play the part of the pious Hasid, wearing the garb, attending prayers regularly and observing, at least outwardly, the myriad laws that govern daily life among the ultra-Orthodox. What if religious faith, or the lack thereof, were encoded in our DNA - not a matter of choice or will, but simply a biological fact? In "All Who Go Do Not Return," a harrowing memoir about one man's loss of faith, Shulem Deen, formerly a member of the Skver sect of ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jews, describes his heresy as something he could no more have avoided than the fact of his brown eyes or pale skin. ![]()
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