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The unheard story: The ultra-Orthodox who leave everything to join the IDF/ By EYTAN HALON in the JERUSALEM POST

December 11, 2017

“Leaving the community is hard. It’s a drastic step. All your life you’re in black and white.”   Read the full article

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Ex-Orthodox Women Must Learn To Say No. Ex-Orthodox Men Must Learn To Listen/by LEAH VINCENT in FORWARD

September 18, 2017

Recently, news broke that three women who had left the ultra-Orthodox community alleged that they were sexually assaulted by a man who also had left that community.

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A path to a new life/ By JOY BERNARD in the JERUSALEM POST

December 15, 2016

Crossing from the world of Orthodoxy to the secular one is not an easy task, but organizations like Hillel, try to make it less difficult

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Former Haredi Woman’s ‘Suicide Book’ Rattles Skeletons in Closets/ By Yair Ettinger in HAARETZ

June 27, 2016

Although she’d left it years ago, Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community is shaken by suicide note and painful manuscript left behind by 50-year-old mother of seven. Read

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AUF DER SUCHE NACH DEM LIEBENDEN GOTT/ By AVIEL SCHNEIDER und ESTI ELIRAS in ISRAEL HEUTE (in German)

March 1, 2016

Israels jüdisch-orthodoxe Gesellschaft befindet sich in einer tiefen Glaubenskrise. „Wir befinden uns auf einer Art Reise, auf der wir versuchen, Gott zu ermorden, und zwar

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For Israelis who flee the ultra-Orthodox fold, a brave new world/ By Tamar Rotem in HAARETZ­

January 1, 2016

A flood of ugly rumors were the final straw that pushed Yisrael Heller to flee the strict, ultra-Orthodox community with his family, in the dead

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Satmar Hasid replaces shtreimel with helmet and joins the IDF/ By ITAMAR EICHNER in Jewish World, YNET

November 2, 2015

Yoel Berkowitz was taught to hate Israel and Zionism, but a visit to Israel changed his entire worldview. He left his Brooklyn Hasidic community to

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What Drives Former Haredim to Suicide? And What Can We Do to Stop It?/ By Shulem Deen in HAARETZ

July 25, 2015

The death of Faigy Mayer, who jumped from a 20-story building in Manhattan, didn’t shock former ultra-Orthodox Jews. It’s almost as if we’ve come to

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

July 21, 2015

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

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