A granddaughter of a chief rabbi of Israel. A daughter of one of London's most prominent rabbis. She lost her virginity at 16 on the bima in front of the ark in her father's Orthodox synagogue. She dropped acid, snorted coke and slept around. She lived with a non-Jewish man. Then, after moving to Israel at the age of 22, she did teshuva:
…[I]n her mid-twenties, she enrolled in a yeshiva, a religious school, where she effectively trained to become a wife. It was there that, one night, religious studies between girls turned into something else: she found herself making love to a fellow student. “I took the dominant role, relishing the opportunity to experience and enjoy a woman the way a man does, and slipped my finger inside her until her pleasure could be heard on the other side of the dormitory wall.” …
And now Reva Mann has written a tell-all memoir, The Rabbi's Daughter, published in England and in Israel now and due out in the US in October.
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