Check out her interview on The View today, on YouTube, at
“The View, Rejection of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn. Deborah Feldman Book”
Parts of it upset me very much.
Regarding a picture of her being led to her Chupah, with the veil over her face; she was told:
“You look stunning. Where are you?” (Audience laughter)
Regarding her talking publicly about her intimate life with her husband, and about Taharas HaMishpacha, as she was asked to talk about “the sexual customs which are so different,” and her talking about how menstruating women are “impure,” and about the Bedikos and the Mikvah;
she had absolutely no business discussing this in front of Frei Jews and non-Jews, who have no idea what genuine Judaism is about.
After she discussed how she saw the Barbara Walters Gallery in Sarah Lawrence College and how she found out who Barbara Walters is, she was told:
“Did you think that Barbara Walters was from another Chassidic tribe?” (Audience laughter)
Unfortunately, she was raised in a dysfunctional home, with a distorted view of Judaism. However, whatever sympathy I may have had for what happened to her, has been completely erased by this Chillul Hashem, at which I cringed.
She made Judaism and all Jews into a laughing stock. This public display was completely uncalled for. No one forced her to do it. She did it for the money.