In David Hopen’s The Orchard, Orthodox Jewish high school student Aryeh moves with his family from Brooklyn’s Borough Park to the Miami suburbs and is plunged into a secularized world where everything he believes he knows of himself is threatened. Irresistibly drawn to his new friends, the lives they lead, and the way they think, Aryeh finds himself becoming increasingly untethered – and giving in to increasingly reckless behavior. He’s speaking with writer Molly Tolsky, founding editor of Alma.com, which focuses on Jewish identity and culture.
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