Parents shunned jumper for leaving Hasidic Judaism/ By Reuven Fenton, Sophia Rosenbaum, Jamie Schram and Kate Sheehy in THE NEW YORK POST

She broke free from the iron-tight grip of her ultra-conservative Hasidic community — only to kill herself after years of struggling with that decision.

Tortured soul Faigy Mayer, who leaped to her death from a trendy Manhattan roof bar Monday night, was shunned by her parents for choosing to live in the secular world, relatives and friends told The Post.

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