Naomi Swartzentruber ended her 20-year dancing career after becoming a mom and published a memoir about her escape into the ...

Naomi Swartzentruber escaped her Amish community at age 17 after rebelling against the lifestyle's restrictive values throughout her teen years. Two years later, she started dancing in strip clubs to ...

Swartzentruber was a teenager when she started to rebel against the traditionalist Amish lifestyle upheld by her parents, seven brothers, four sisters and the rest of their community. She and her ...

eventually building a modern life in Texas as a social media content creator. In April 2021, on a snowy evening, Hershberger left one of the strictest Amish subgroups, the Swartzentruber order ...

“We went to town to get feed for the horses and stuff at the feed mill,” recalls Hershberger, now 21, who belonged to one of the strictest Amish subgroups, the Swartzentruber order. "That ...

Some, like the Swartzentruber Amish, strictly reject modern technology ... a culture known for its commitment to a simpler ...

The Swartzentruber Amish are suing to overturn Ohio's new traffic law that requires animal-drawn buggies to have yellow flashing lights, saying the law conflicts with ...