In All Who Go Do Not Return, Deen bravely traces his harrowing loss of faith, while offering an illuminating look at a highly secretive world. His relationship with his family at stake, he is forced into a life of deception, and begins a long struggle to hold on to those he loves most: his five children. Now a heretic, he fears being discovered and ostracized from the only world he knows. Shulem is the former blogger known as 'Hasidic Rebel,' and the founding editor of Unpious, an online journal for voices on the Hasidic fringe. Soon he begins a feverish inquiry into the tenets of his religious beliefs, until, several years later, his faith unravels entirely. Shulem Deen is the author of 'All Who Go Do Not Return,' a memoir about growing up in and then leaving one of the most insular Hasidic sects in the U.S.
Deen's first transgression-turning on the radio-is small, but his curiosity leads him to the library, and later the Internet. His marriage at eighteen is arranged and several children soon follow. As a member of the Skverers, one of the most insular Hasidic sects in the US, he knows little about the outside world-only that it is to be shunned. Shulem Deen was raised to believe that questions are dangerous. He’s a good interview subject, with an interesting story to tell. I had heard the author, whose memoir All Who Go Do Not Return chronicled his exodus from a Rockland County chasidic sect, on another podcast. As a member of the Skverers, one of the most insular Hasidic sects in the US, he knows little about the outside worldonly that it is to be shunned. A moving and revealing exploration of ultra-Orthodox Judaism and one man's loss of faith When a new podcast promised an interview with the writer Shulem Deen, I wasn’t surprised. Shulem Deen was raised to believe that questions are dangerous.
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