How do you walk away from your ultra-religious community?
The freedom and anguish of leaving behind a strict Hasidic Jewish upbringing.
Izzy Posen looks and seems like a normal student. But his life before university was far from the norm. He grew up in an ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jewish community in North London, speaking no English and attending an illegal school. This is the story of a man who chose to leave everything he knew behind, and the freedom and anguish that came with that decision.
Reporter: Alice Porter
Producer: Harriet Noble
Mixed by: Nico Raufast
Editor: John Shields
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