Entries by Chatzkaleh Kofer
This is How Difficult Leaving is
Rebecca Wyss, reporter SonntagsBlickPublished on: 01.04.2019, 10:00 Anyone who wants to leave the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Zurich has a difficult road ahead of them. A small group of formerly religious talk about their departure – and are now helping others. Sam Friedman, 36, has left the Jewish Orthodox community. He belongs to a small […]
Melissa’s Story
Melissa is 37 years old and lives in Ottawa, Ontario with two cats 🙂 Hi Melissa, thanks for agreeing to do an interview. What can you tell us about your religious background? Hi, thanks for having me! I grew up as an evangelical Christian, and was with the Baptist Church from birth until I was […]
Rachel’s Story
Rachel (pseudonym) is in her forties, and is an attorney-in-law. She lives on the east coast with her two sons. Hi Rachel, thanks for agreeing to be interviewed. Please tell us something about your family’s religious background and why you know Russian 🙂 We came here when I was relatively young from the former Soviet […]
Letter to Our Family and Friends
by Philo and Judy Judaeus
Miriam’s Story and Fraud in the Stamford Hill Community
BBC Radio 4 – File on 4, The Unorthodox Life of Miriam The shocking story of one woman’s attempt to escape an Orthodox Jewish community.
How Rabbi Tauber Betrayed My Trust
By the time I was ten years old I knew this life wasn’t for me. No, I was not molested. I was not beaten or abused in any way. I was the middle child in a large Orthodox family and I always felt loved and cared for. My parents are honest and kind, good people. […]
Akiva’s Story
Akiva Weingarten was born in New York in 1984, the oldest of a family of 11 children. At 18, he moved to Israel where he lived for 10 years. Akiva got his first Smicha (rabbinical ordination) from a Chassidish Yeshiva in Monsey, NY at the age of 17 and was ordained again 8 years later […]
Todd’s Story
I was born into a Jewish family which was very involved with Jewish and synagogue life, long before we all became Orthodox. Our family belonged to a synagogue affiliated with the centrist Conservative movement of Judaism (religiously in between the more liberal Reform and more strict Orthodox movements) in Rockville, Connecticut, a suburb of Hartford. […]