A path to a new life/ By JOY BERNARD in the JERUSALEM POST
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
Former Haredi Woman’s ‘Suicide Book’ Rattles Skeletons in Closets/ By Yair Ettinger in HAARETZ
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
AUF DER SUCHE NACH DEM LIEBENDEN GOTT/ By AVIEL SCHNEIDER und ESTI ELIRAS in ISRAEL HEUTE (in German)
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
For Israelis who flee the ultra-Orthodox fold, a brave new world/ By Tamar Rotem in HAARETZ
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
Satmar Hasid replaces shtreimel with helmet and joins the IDF/ By ITAMAR EICHNER in Jewish World, YNET
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
What Drives Former Haredim to Suicide? And What Can We Do to Stop It?/ By Shulem Deen in HAARETZ
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
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
A New, True Story About Growing Up Hasidic and Leaving/ By LEAH FALK in JEWNIVERSE
Ex-Hasidic narratives — they seemed to be publishing’s hot ticket for a few minutes, with Anouk Markovits’s I Am Forbidden, Leah Vincent’s Cut Me Loose, and others. But Unpious editor Shulem
Life after conservative faith: the defectors who leave ultra-Orthodox communities/ By FARAH HALIME in The Guardian
A growing number of men and women are choosing to leave their overbearing religious sects behind – but they encounter new challenges in secular New
Why People Leave Orthodoxy — and How/ By Ezra Glinter in Forward
In “Becoming Un-Orthodox,” a study of ex-Orthodox Jews by University of Kansas professor Lynn Davidman, a woman identified only as “Leah” describes Friday night meals