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ULTRA ORTHODOX: Hasidic Jewish Sect FORCED Her to Marry; Denied Gay Woman a Divorce
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Sara Glass knew she kept falling in love with women, but that didn’t matter. She knew her place as an Ultra Orthodox woman. She was placed into an arranged marriage to a man shortly after graduating high school and she painfully left her girlfriend behind. Sara vulnerably shares in great detail about what it was like navigating s*x, pregnancy, chiIdbirth and postpartum as a Hasidic woman who was also gay.
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00:03:56 Growing up in a Hasidic neighborhood in Brooklyn and falling in love with other girls as a teen
00:05:57 Sara grapples with who she has been taught God is, Jewish law, and her actions
00:07:32 Keeping an open heart and connecting to the story with your own struggles
00:08:27 How marriage classes surprised Sara and the emphasis on the holiness of consummation
00:12:20 How a lack of s*x education led to confusion and an invasion of privacy from the Rabbi
00:18:52 What Sara's first pregnancy was like and her complicated feelings afterwards TW: m*scarriage
00:22:06 The differences between m*scarrying a girl fetus and a boy fetus
00:23:40 Sara's husband takes the rules even further
00:25:49 What it was like giving birth without her husband in a secular hospital as a Hasidic Jewish woman
00:27:22 What the rules for birth control were in Sara's community
00:30:44 Gender roles in the Hasidic community and how the community is built around them
00:34:16 Mental health in this Hasidic community and Sara's fight for higher education
00:39:21 M