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Newshour: leaving Haredi

yesterday evening (monday 14th), 9.47-9.43pm, on bbc world service radio
newshour (presented by tim franks) includes …

”Imagine a world without internet, without ever seeing the news, where you’re discouraged from speaking your home country’s language, and where you are expected to dedicate your whole life to religious study. For many Haredi Jews living in the United Kingdom, that life is their reality.”

including contributions from …
• bbc reporter alice porter
• former haredi izzy posen
(see also https://humanism.org.uk/2018/02/27/a-day-in-my-life-at-an-illegal-ultra-orthodox-school-in-london/)

(if you missed it, available from 0:41:04 to 0:46:30 at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w172w25ldj7618l)

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