![]() ![]() She taught herself to sew at 16 and would make the tznius - modest - version of what she saw in the fashion magazines she smuggled into the house. ![]() (In fact, she’d secretly gone on birth control.) Later, as a married woman, she often was reprimanded for dressing in bright colors - to which she always had the same reply: “The day God stops making flowers, I’ll stop wearing colors.” (In an early episode of “My Unorthodox Life,” she returns to Monsey and goes grocery shopping while wearing a low-cut, shamrock green romper.) She once was pulled into the rabbi’s office for dancing too provocatively around other women at a wedding - where genders were always kept separate - and told she hadn’t been blessed by God with more children because her clothes were too form-fitting. In the year before she left, Haart thought about committing suicide but worried how the stigma of mental illness would affect her children’s marriage prospects. So she tried to starve herself to death, dropping down to 73 pounds. She is explaining her thought process - “What’s the most inoffensive way to commit suicide, where my kids will still be able to get married?” - when her daughter, Miriam, 21, enters the room. Television Netflix’s apolitical ‘Shtisel’ faces a new test: The clout of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox “She’s the reason I’m alive today,” Haart says of Miriam, a student at Stanford and a proud bisexual whose active dating figures prominently in “My Unorthodox Life.” Like her mother, Miriam favors a bold personal style: She’s wearing platform sneakers and a Gucci track jacket with matching shorts. The sleeper hit ‘is not a political opinion piece,’ says co-writer Ori Elon. But critics argue it ignores the ultra-Orthodox community’s political power. ![]()
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