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“Until now the state looked at them from the Haredi narrative – dropouts, weaklings – and that even if we try to help them, it’s through the welfare prism,” said Nadav Rosenblatt, Out For Change’s director. “They could have stayed Haredim but chose to leave. They come with motivation, they have aspirations to integrate in the workforce and higher education.”
Shabtai is the sixth of eight siblings, of whom two others have also stopped being ultra-Orthodox. She said she lost childhood friendships when she chose to leave, and that decision has strained relations with her parents.
Visiting her parents’ home in pants, rather than along skirt as is customary among Orthodox women, does not bother them, she said, “but Shabbat is something that is painful to them.”
“If I come it’s only once in a while, and then I go home with a car — I park it outside the neighborhood,” she said. “It hurts, both for them and for me.”
Her departure was a gradual process. It began when she started post-secondary education outside the ultra-Orthodox community, where she encountered Israelis of many varieties.
“I still really wanted to remain religious, but not ultra-Orthodox. Religiosity still had a very, very strong place, but Haredi-ness, the communality — I suddenly realized that it’s not obligatory, it’s not the best, it’s not good for me.”
Some ex-Haredim maintain religious lifestyles outside the strictures of the community, some preserve some traditional practices common among many Israeli Jews, while others adopt a secular outlook.
Among the handfuls of former Haredi Jews, most still maintain some kind of religious lifestyle, according to an Out For Change poll. Only 21% of those surveyed identified as secular; 45% said they are still religiously observant — just not ultra-Orthodox.
“The reasons for leaving, contrary to what many people think, are in most cases social and not theological,” said Gilad Malach, a researcher focusing on the ultra-Orthodox community at the Israel Democracy Institute. Many of those giving up Haredi life cite social pressure that doesn’t allow individual expression, he said.
“Right now, I’m very comfortable in my own way, that I’m not ultra-Orthodox,” Shabtai said. “I don’t like to define that I’m secular, I didn’t grow up in that society, I don’t identify entirely with it.”
On the inside of Shabtai’s right wrist she has a small tattoo with the Hebrew words for “I don’t know.” Not only are tattoos taboo according to Jewish custom, but the uncertainty contained in that phrase would be discouraged as well.
“What isn’t there to know? There is God, there are rules, there’s nothing not to know,” she said.
Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP’s collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content.
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