Netflix's new limited drama series, Unorthodox, tells the powerful true story of a woman who flees her strict Hasidic community in Brooklyn in order to live a secular life in Berlin. It's based on ...

The wildly popular Netflix series “Unorthodox,” based on Deborah Feldman’s bestselling 2009 memoir of the same name, is only part of Feldman’s story. Yes, she was born into a repressive Brooklyn ...

Deborah Feldman’s 2012 memoir “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots” charts a familiar path of resistance. Raised in the Hasidic Satmar sect of Williamsburg, Feldman escaped an ...

‘Unorthodox’: how is the book different from the Netflix series? In Unorthodox the television show, Esty’s experiences in Willamsburg, Brooklyn, are very similar to Feldman’s real life in the ...

In Netflix's new four-part mini-series, Unorthodox, Esty Shapiro makes the radical decision to abandon her husband and the only home she's ever known. The show is based on the 2012 memoir of author ...