A new survey of American Jews who have left Orthodox Judaism asks tough questions of the community as it describes the complicated web of factors causing people to leave the fold. Published by the ...

Ziva Mann remembers how joyful and smiley her daughter was as a child — the family even gave her the nickname “Giggles.” “She was just sunshine,” Mann said. That changed around second grade, when her ...

Frieda Vizel left her ultra-orthodox lifestyle in a crisis of faith at 25 but instead of cutting ties she became a tour guide to the world of New York's ultra-Orthodox Jews. Vizel gives sold-out tours ...

Menachem Daum (1946-2024) was not your typical Orthodox Jewish filmmaker. In his work, the late director often strove to find ...

Jewish writer Shulem Deen said he was born into a world of complete passivity, with major life decisions made for him, including whom to marry and what names to give his children. That was true until ...

I was recently invited to give a talk, drawn from my book “Women of Valor,” about “off-the-derech” memoirs—stories of people, primarily women, who left their Orthodox Jewish communities and wrote ...