Deen, Shulem

LC control no.	no2015040473
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Deen, Shulem *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated place	New Square (N.Y.)
Located	Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Birth date	1974
Field of activity	Hasidism Authorship
Affiliation	Footsteps, Inc.
Profession or occupation	Journalists Editors Authors
Found in	All who go do not return, 2015: title page (Shulem Deen) back cover (a former Skverer Hasid, and the founding editor of Unpious; his work has appeared in the Jewish Daily Forward, Tablet, and Salon; lives in Brooklyn, New York) Author's website, viewed March 26, 2015: (founding editor of Unpious, an online journal for voices on the Hasidic fringe; board member of Footsteps, a New York City-based organization that offers assistance and support to those who have left the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community) <http://www.shulemdeen.com/about.html> Facebook.com, via WWW, 20 March 2015: (Shulem Deen, author, born 1974) wikipedia.org, via WWW, 20 March 2015: (Shulem Deen; Deen first became known as the author of the blog, "Hasidic Rebel," which he wrote from 2003 until 2012, and which was the subject of a 2003 feature article in the Village Voice. Deen spent his early life among Satmar Hasidim in Borough Park, Brooklyn, and joined the Skverer sect when he was a teenager, moving to the town of New Square, to settle after marriage. He was married in 1993, and has five children. In 2005, Deen was expelled from New Square by its leaders for holding heretical views, and several years later divorced his wife and left the Hasidic lifestyle entirely. He currently lives in Brooklyn New York.) linkedin.com, via WWW, 20 March 2015: (Shulem Deen, education: Yeshiva Avir Yakov; board of directors of Footsteps, Inc.; Assist in leadership of NYC-based not-for-profit organization that provides educational, vocational, and social support to former members of insular, ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities.)
Associated language	eng