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MANY PEOPLE who decide to leave their haredi community do so with no tools whatsoever to make it in the world outside the community where they grew up.
(Nir Elias/Reuters)
JOY BERNARD
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Pressing needs
psychotherapy.
Many yotzim see the therapist as
some sort of supplement to their rabbi.
In their past lives their rabbi used to tell
them what to do and how to act; now
they expect the therapist to take on that
role. That creates an interesting discussion, because the end goal is for them to
integrate into the secular world and not
to exchange their rabbi for another authoritative figure.
When patients expect me to tell
them how to live their lives, I raise
People didnt
understand what
we were fighting for.
They thought we were
against religion and
didnt realize we were
just trying to provide
a response that the
government didnt offer
to ex-Orthodox Israelis
who were helpless...
Two-way path
Where to now?
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