A moving and revealing exploration of Hasidic life and one man's
struggles with faith, family, and community.
Shulem Deen was raised to believe that questions are dangerous. As a
member of the Skverers, one of the most insular Hasidic sects in the US,
he knows little about the outside world - only that it is to be shunned.
His marriage at 18 is arranged, and several children soon follow.
Deen's first transgression - turning on the radio - is small, but his
curiosity leads him to the library and, later, the Internet. Soon he
begins a feverish inquiry into the tenets of his religious beliefs
until, several years later, his faith unravels entirely. Now a heretic,
he fears being discovered and ostracized from the only world he knows.
His relationship with his family at stake, he is forced into a life of
deception and begins a long struggle to hold on to those he loves most:
his five children.
In All Who Go Do Not Return, Deen bravely traces his harrowing loss of
faith while offering an illuminating look at a highly secretive world.
