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'Why I had to leave my ultra-Orthodox life'
Would you be able to leave everything you have ever known behind in order to follow your dreams?
That was the choice Izzy Posen, a Hasidic ultra-Orthodox Jew faced when he decided to leave his isolated religious community.
He told 麻豆社 World Service how his life has been transformed since breaking free.
Video produced by Trystan Young and Alice Porter.
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(Picture credit: Izzy Posen)
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