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Naomi Seidman

Naomi Seidman teaches at the University of Toronto, where she is the Chancellor Jackman Professor of the Arts in the department for the study of religion and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies. Her most recent book, Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement: A Revolution in the Name of Tradition (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization), won a National Jewish Book Award.

Summer 2020

My Scandalous Rejection of Unorthodox

By: Naomi Seidman

All of us in the online OTD community have gone through some version of the transformation Unorthodox dramatizes, and we gobble down and fiercely debate every new OTD memoir that hits the shelves, every documentary and movie that comes out.