Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword
  • Introduction: What I Sought, What I Found
  • 1. The Community: A Cultural and Psychological Tour
  • 2. The Cast
  • 3. Esther (Estie) Gutman: Wild Times and Holy Designs
  • 4. Rochel Lehrer: Evolving, Not Rebelling
  • 5. Nechama Dina (Dini) Rockoff: Chutzpah and Holiness
  • 6. Chaya Jacobson: Strip Clubs and Soul-Searching
  • 7. Gittel Kassin: Medicine and Marriage
  • 8. Malka (Malkie) Belfer: Miniskirts and the Messiah
  • 9. Leah Ratner: Mystic and Maverick
  • 10. Into the Future: Adulthood and Insights from the Hasidim
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author