“In fact, it was only when he took an accounting class outside of the community and, for the first time in his life, befriended women that Avi realized they could in fact be as intellectually oriented as men. It was also through that class that he realized he very much enjoyed the company of these women, taking them out to dinner and hoping that one might even become his girlfriend. As a divorced older man in the community, he gets only the dregs from the matchmakers, people with deformities or mental illnesses. Or those notoriously unstable baalei teshuvah whose lack of background often blinds them to the nuances of community life and who, with the zeal of the newly converted, can be even more fanatic than the most religious Hasid born into the community.”