# Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/hidden-heretics-jewish-doubt-in-the-digital-age
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/hidden-heretics-jewish-doubt-in-the-digital-age.md
Podcast: [New Books in Jewish Studies](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327)
Published: 2026-06-20T08:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK8523163417.mp3
Audio file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK8523163417.mp3
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/episodes/hidden-heretics-jewish-doubt-in-the-digital-age

## Resource

In her recent publication, Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age, scholar Ayala Fader tells the fascinating, often heart-wrenching stories of married ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and women in twenty-first-century New York who lead “double lives” in order to protect those they love. Drawing on five years of fieldwork with those living double lives and the rabbis, life coaches, and religious therapists who minister to, advise, and sometimes excommunicate them, Fader investigates religious doubt and social change in the digital age. In following those living double lives, who range from the religiously observant but open-minded on one end to atheists on the other, Fader delves into universal quandaries of faith and skepticism, the ways digital media can change us, and family frictions that arise when a person radically transforms who they are and what they believe. Join YIVO for a discussion of this recent publication featuring Fader in conversation with Josh Lambert, professor and director of the Jewish Studies Program at Wellesley College. Buy the book: here This book talk originally took place on September 22, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/episodes/hidden-heretics-jewish-doubt-in-the-digital-age/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-jewish-studies-313327/hidden-heretics-jewish-doubt-in-the-digital-age.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed.

## Transcript

Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.