Fact-Checking the 'Turd Ferguson' Girl
Talia Lavin parlays the post-Sabbath Saturday nights of her youth into Jeopardy! gold.
On June 9, 2015, Talia Lavin started as a summer fact-checker at The New Yorker. Remarkably, by the end of July, she had a first-person piece published titled “Off the Path of Orthodoxy.” The item briefly recounts her experience growing up in Teaneck, N.J. and her decision to leave the Orthodox Jewish faith:
The freedoms I was given were small and huge at once: though as a girl I was barred from counting toward a prayer quorum or baring my shoulders, I was granted a superb secular education alongside my religious studies, and was also permitted to use the Internet.
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