RESOURCES
Pathways has collected useful resources to assist Jewish people who are exploring their own path in life.
This FREE resource pack has been designed especially for religious Jewish people who are exploring beyond their lifestyle, practices or beliefs. It includes useful information if you are facing violence and/or abuse, or if you require education advice, employment assistance, parenting information &
much more..
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Links to further resources
If you wish to learn more about how life has been for those who have chosen to question their insular Jewish community, please freely explore these links.
Videos
1. Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism, Sol Feuerwerker and Chani Getter's stories on PBS http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2013/05/10/may-10-2013-leaving-ultra-orthodox-judaism/18423/ 2. Leah Vincent - On being disowned by Orthodox Jewish family. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jBt1aQJGrc 3. Shifra - Leaving as a family https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr1-7x12w3U&feature=youtu.be 4. Menashe - Avalaible at Stonnington, Port Phillip & Glen Eira Libraries. 5. Watch 'It Gets Besser' - 'Before and After images of those who have left the ultra-Orthodox world' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63dQlz0LUAw 6. Unpious - The story of Shulem Deen, a Hasidic Rebel https://vimeo.com/33506529
Online reading material
Footsteps - Your life. Your journey. Your choice. https://www.footstepsorg.org Stories to help individuals who are considering leaving the ultra-Orthodox community or have already begun a new life in the secular world. http://www.offthederech.site/stories/ 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. https://www.jewishnews.net.au/aris-way-far-from-satmar/84558 Community, purpose, belonging — these are just some of the social benefits that can come from growing up in a religious family. https://www.abc.net.au/life/i-lost-my-religion-but-i-dont-want-to-lose-my-family/11885172
Books
*Looks for the titles below at the Glen Eira, Port Phillip, Stonnington & Lamm Libraries or contact us at info@pathwaysmelbourne.org Dassi Erlich - In Bad Faith Kissing Girls On Shabbat - Dr Sara Glass Naomi Alderman - Disobedience Shalom Auslander - Foreskin's Lament, Beware of God, Hope: A Tragedy & Mother for Dinner Lynn Davidman - Becoming un-orthodox: stories of ex-Hasidic Jews Shulem Deen - All who go do not return Deborah Feldman - Unorthodox, The scandalous rejection of my Hasidic Roots Eve Harris - The Marrying of Chani Kaufman Stephanie Levine 'Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers' Savyon Liebrecht - Apples from the Desert Reva J Mann -'The Rabbi's Daughter - A true story of sex, drugs and Orthodoxy Anouk Markovitz – I am Forbidden Schneur Zalman Newfield - Degrees of Separation, Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism Available online: https://tupress.temple.edu/book/20000000009960 Naomi Ragen - Women’s Minyan Abby Stein - Becoming Eve: My journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman Leah Vincent - Cut me loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood' Hella Winston - The Unchosen: the hidden lives of Hasidic rebels Hadatlashim: Masa el olamam shel dativim lesheavar – Leaving religion behind Margolese, Faranak: 'Off the Derech' Winston, Hella: 'The Unchosen'
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.