Netflix’s Unorthodox Tells the True Story of One Woman’s Escape from a Strict Hasidic Community

May 01, 2020 at 10:40PM In the Netflix miniseries Unorthodox, audiences witness a transformation. The four-episode series follows the character Esther “Esty” Shapiro (played by Shira Haas), a young woman growing up in the Hasidic Satmar community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. An ultra-Orthodox sect of Judaism, the Satmar group was founded

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