'Why I had to leave my ultra-Orthodox family' - BBC News

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Published on Feb 26, 2021
Would you be able to leave your family and friends, knowing you may never see them again, so you could 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 BBC World Service how his life has been transformed since breaking free.

Video produced by Trystan Young and Alice Porter

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