 This was a girl who read Tolstoy at eight, so it's not really a surprise that Julia excelled at her religious school, too. She got top marks in her Judaic or religious studies and even got into one of the top seminaries, a college for ultra-Orthodox girls in Israel. Somehow, though, Julia always seemed to slip up, be it a forbidden flirtation or a Barbara Cartland novel. It's like there were two sides to her. But at 19, she still desperately and fervently believed that this was the right place for her.