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Deborah Feldman’s book about her 
departure from haredi life 
includes the account of a Satmar 
man’s suspicious death. 

‘Unorthodox’ Author’s Claim Of Cover-up Is Countered
Coroner’s report lists 20-year-old’s death in Kiryas Joel as suicide, not murder.

Hella Winston  Jewish Week Tuesday, February 21, 2012
With allegations of communal cover-ups involving child sexual abuse dogging the haredi community over the past several years, it may not be much of a stretch for some readers to believe a gruesome story that appears in a new memoir about growing up in, and leaving, the Satmar community.

The story, recounted by Deborah Feldman in “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots” (Simon and Schuster), involves the alleged mutilation and murder of a boy by his own father — supposedly for masturbating — and the subsequent cover-up of the crime by Hatzolah, the community’s volunteer ambulance service. READ MORE