'Leaving the Faith': Faigy Mayer's Struggle in Her Own Words
Editor’s note: On Monday evening, a 30-year-old Jewish woman named Faigy Mayer fell to her death from a rooftop bar just one block from Tablet’s offices in Manhattan. The event was reported as a suicide. Almost immediately, facts—as well as speculation—regarding Mayer’s life flooded the news cycle as the media chased after answers, from her social media profiles and other online representations, along with her friends and family, most of whom belong to the Belz Orthodox community in Brooklyn, where she grew up. Mayer made the decision to leave her Hasidic community over five years ago.
On Sunday, July 12, just one week before her death, Mayer posted a message on Facebook. It read:
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