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If you wish to learn more about how life has been for those who have chosen to leave ultra-orthodoxy, please freely explore these links.
Video
Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism, Sol Feuerwerker and Chani Getter's stories on PBS
Leah Vincent - On being disowned by Orthodox Jewish family.
Shifra - Leaving as a family
Menashe - Avalaible at Stonnington, Port Phillip & Glen Eira Libraries.
Watch 'It Gets Besser' - Independent interviews with four men and women who left Hassidic backgrounds
Unpious - The story of Shulem Deen, a Hasidic Rebel
Pathways aspire to help formally Orthodox Melbournians, in the same way Footsteps has helped so many in New York.
Online reading material
Footsteps - Your life. Your journey. Your choice.
Stories to help individuals who are considering leaving the ultra-Orthodox community or have already begun a new life in the secular world.
Ari Hershkowitz rose to prominence in the 2017 Netflix documentary, ‘One of Us’, which followed his journey towards leaving ultra-Orthodoxy. He speaks about his past struggles with sexual abuse, substance addiction and self-harm.
A moving letter from haredi father to his off the derech adult daughter.
Oy Vey Vartoons, by Frieda Vizel
A collection of interviews from people who have left or who are looking to leave Ultra-Orthodox Judaism.
Community, purpose, belonging — these are just some of the social benefits that can come from growing up in a religious family.
Books
Naomi Alderman - 'Disobedience'
Available at Stonnington, Port Phillip and Glen Eira Libraries.
Shalom Auslander - 'Foreskin's Lament: Beware of God'
Available at Glen Eira and Port Phillip Libraries and the Lamm Library.
Lynn Davidman - Becoming un-orthodox: stories of ex-Hasidic Jews
Available at Stonnington and Glen Eira Libraries.
Shulem Deen - All who go do not return
Available at Stonnington and Glen Eira Libraries and the Lamm Library
Deborah Feldman - Unorthodox, The scandalous rejection of my Hasidic Roots
Available at Glen Eira Libraries and the Lamm Library
Eve Harris - The Marrying of Chani Kaufman
Available at Glen Eira Libraries (ebook) and at the Lamm Library.
Stephanie Levine 'Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers'
Available at Glen Eira Libraries and the Lamm Library
Auslander, Shalom: 'Foreskin's Lament'; 'Beware of God'
Savyon Liebrecht - Apples from the Desert
Available at the Lamm Library.
Reva J Mann -'The Rabbi's Daughter - A true story of sex, drugs and Orthodoxy
Available at the Lamm Library.
Anouk Markovitz – I am Forbidden
Available at Glen Eira Libraries and the Lamm Library.
Naomi Ragen - Women’s Minyan
Abby Stein - Becoming Eve: My journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman
Available at Glen Eira Libraries.
Leah Vincent - Cut me loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood'
Available at Stonnington Libraries and the Lamm Library.
Hella Winston - The Unchosen: the hidden lives of Hasidic rebels
Available at Glen Eira Libraries and the Lamm Library.
Hadatlashim: Masa el olamam shel dativim lesheavar – Leaving religion behind
Margolese, Faranak: 'Off the Derech'
Winston, Hella: 'The Unchosen'
Stein, Abby: 'Becoming Eve'
Libraries
Lamm Jewish Library of Australia
304 Hawthorn Rd, Caulfield South VIC 3162
Glen Eira Libraries
https://library.gleneira.vic.gov.au/
Caulfield Library
Caulfield Town Hall
Carnegie Library
7 Shepparson Avenue, Carnegie
Bentleigh Library
161 Jasper Rd, Bentleigh
Port Phillip Libraries
150 Carlisle Street St Kilda
Albert Park Library
319 Montague Street, Albert Park
Port Melbourne Library
333 Bay Street, Port Melbourne
South Melbourne Library
195 Bank Street, South Melbourne
Middle Park Library
254-256 Richardson Street, Middle Park
Stonnington Libraries
https://www.stonnington.vic.gov.au/library/Stonnington-Libraries
Toorak Library
340 Toorak Road South Yarra
Prahran Library
180 Greville Street Prahran (at back of old Town Hall)
Malvern Library
1255 High Street Malvern
East Malvern Library (Phoenix Park branch)
30 Rob Roy Road, East Malvern
If you are a library member at one of the Council libraries, you can get the book delivered to your preferred branch for pickup by reserving it online.