Downstream: Leaving London’s Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Community w/ Izzy Posen

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Downstream: Leaving London’s Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Community w/ Izzy Posen

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Jul 3, 2023

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Izzy Posen grew up in London’s Hasidic Jewish community in Stamford Hill, receiving the bare minimum of secular education in a school that still practiced corporal punishment. Even with the strictures of this insular community, he developed an acute curiosity about the world, resulting in him teaching himself English and eventually leaving the community to […]

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Jul 3, 2023

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Downstream: Leaving London’s Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Community w/ Izzy Posen

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