Voices Stories by Elicia Brown
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Only her sheitelmacher knows: Brooklyn wig-makers enlisted to tease out domestic abuse secrets
The sheitelmacher’s [wigmaker’s] life is one where bonds are forged as tresses are untangled, where customers visit Georgie as often as every other week for a $60 shampoo and styling of the wigs they wear in keeping with the Jewish laws of modesty for married women. Now, the Brooklyn DA’s office is asking sheitelmachers to help confront a long-ignored fact of Orthodox life: domestic violence. more>