![]() It also reveals the secrets she harbored behind the observant façade, and the sprouting of a feminist consciousness as she came to know herself. ![]() Her memoir, Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home, charts the years she gave over to strict observance of religious law, from hair covering to the order of putting on one’s shoe in the morning, from compulsive pre-Passover cleaning to relinquishing all questioning. Then after nearly 30 years-and seven children-she left that cloistered life behind. Like the others in her community, she did not own a television, read secular books, surf the Net or go to movies or restaurants. In her teens she left this life-and her neglectful parents-to become a Lubavitcher Hasid, and soon after entered into an arranged marriage. ![]() ![]() Leah Lax is familiar to Lilith readers for several of her essays in the magazine, most recently the economically told life history “One Woman’s Resume.” Raised in a Reform Jewish family in Dallas, close to her immigrant grandparents, who still ate schmaltz herring in their elegant nouveau-riche home she says that growing up, she learned to crochet and ride a horse. ![]()
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