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Yeshiva boys in 1930s Poland (photo: Roman Vishniac/YIVO)

Losing my religion

Note: this text was written in 1994, at the request of Hofesh, a leading Israeli freedom-from-religion site. This is a translation, modified by what I learned over the last 12 years. In order to understand this story, you have to know a bit about the life of a boy coming from a national-religious family in…

By Yossi Gurvitz September 18, 2010