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(82,333 posts) Tue Aug 4, 2015, 12:45 PM Aug 2015

Friendly Atheist Podcast Episode 66: Shulem Deen, Former Hasidic Jew

August 3, 2015
by Hemant Mehta

Our latest podcast guest is Shulem Deen, a former Hasidic Jew.

Since leaving that world, Shulem has founded the website Unpious which is a voice for other ultra-Orthodox Jews who may be rethinking their faith. His new memoir is called All Who Go Do Not Return.

We spoke with Shulem about the hypocrisy of Hasidic Jews regarding modern technology, how that community reacted to an episode of This American Life focusing on them, and how America Online became his gateway to the outside world.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2015/08/03/friendly-atheist-podcast-episode-66-shulem-deen-former-hasidic-jew/

38:11 audio at link.

http://www.unpious.com/

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