ULTRA ORTHODOX: Hasidic Jewish Sect FORCED Her to Marry; Denied Gay Woman a Divorce

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 More rules around giving birth

00:42:48 What does Sara wish the medical staff would have done differently?

00:45:36 Sara's experience in college learning about the LGBTQ+ community

00:48:49 How Sara's social work classes applied to her own life TW: Marital r*pe

00:50:56 Rules for men around s*x

00:52:52 Divorce in the Hasidic community and the conditions Sara had to agree to to be granted one

00:56:20 Sara finally feels like she's in her own body

00:59:42 Sara expands her horizons in the secular world before remarrying

01:05:28 What did the Rabbis say about the LGBTQ+ community and men vs women

01:07:36 Sara finally decides to live an authentic life

01:12:20 What it means to leave a Hasidic community and the difficulties Sara faced

01:13:07 What Sara's relationship with her family is like today

01:14:31 What Sara's chosen community looks like now

01:17:26 Future writing endeavors

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