Friday, February 24, 2012

The Deborah Feldman Book

I am not interested in this womans experiences nor am I interested in her conversations or her way of life.  I am interested in knowing if there were any true crimes in the orthodox community, yet I am not yet certain I will immediately read this book that she called "unorthodox". 
I am aware of course that there is a major outcry for justice in the orthodox community.
There is much written on many of the jewish web sites of the orthodox world calling her a woman who has done irreparable harm to the communities.  I am yet to think this is so.

I did give the sample a read from my kindle so far and this is what I printed on one of the Jewish web sites:

This book is written by a woman with a small capacity to demonstrate good will and customs for any human interaction.   I read the sample of the book from kindle.  I was quickly aggravated by her account of her father and the respect she did not show in introducing a very sensitive subject of his mental health.  I was also surprised she was so egregiously arrogant to make constant references to her family's prosperity in terms of a very superficial sleazy way of life.
I was again sleazed out when I read her account of the way that the "waiter made eye contact" with her upon singing her happy birthday and felt that this degraded the soul to read such a breif wanton way of regarding human interaction.


Will see if there is more to follow. I suspect I may have a social responsiblity to review this 'best' seller and decide for myself what this woman is interested in acheiving.

I am so far markedly unimpressed with her way of expression and her own noticable poverty for realism and social reality.   I am thinking that this book is likely a very poor version of a smut like revision of instead of sexual smut per se, it is anti-orthodox smut.

Either way, I feel very safe as a Jew that this type of work will not compromise my future and my standing as a human being and orthodox Torah Observant Jew. 

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