RESOURCES
Links to resources
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
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.
Books
Auslander, Shalom: 'Foreskin's Lament'; 'Beware of God'
Levine, Stephanie: 'Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers'
J Mann, Reva: 'The Rabbi's Daughter'
Winston, Hella: 'The Unchosen'
Deen, Shulem: 'All who go do not return'
Vincent, Leah: 'Cut me loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood'
Margolese, Faranak: 'Off the Derech'