Why I Stopped Writing About Being Ex-Hasidic

And why it still informs everything I do

I thought it was all I was going to write about when I left.  For years, I had written about the struggles I was going through as a Chabad Hasid, then as Modern Orthodox, then as an openly rebellious progressive Orthodox Jew who was desperately looking for a way to square my beliefs around things like queer rights with Orthodoxy.

And then the squaring no…