yeah this look of shock like while there's a jew at our school that's the bad thing 11 teenagers 11 stories. case i'm jewish and soviet. german and jewish starts feb 22nd on d w. i would say that we grew up in a cult and a society that runs itself very similar to north korea. i keep a fine garden has left the cult as he calls it you no longer lives in an ultra-orthodox jewish community in a bind garden has established a new jewish life for himself in germany. it's a decision that very strictly observant jews like you. on principle.

of i'm sure the if you do not live for god but is no kind of life that will you live like an animal without any sense or purpose and is it. more and more young adults choose no longer wanted to vote their lives to god and surprisingly many of them a drawn. it's friday evening the start of the jewish day of rest and celebration. there. the key to find god is a rabbi this evening his leading prayers for a very special community many of the juicy have quit ultra-orthodox communities in the united states or israel. in germany they're trying to lead their own lives attempting to establish moral. next relationship to god. with the help of rep i

find out. all things in nish even the people who don't want to remain observant are still interested in these traditions these are targets on. earth i find god must to give a new spiritual hired a new family to those who have left their own orthodox communities. he regularly bites people to cook and eat together for the chabad cuisine the community often means a loss of contact with their own family this is where vine gotten can seem everyone is welcome here. this is common in the mission for everyone is invited to come here it's a mix of ex orthodox israelis germans liberal jews all the docs jews conservative jews non jews everyone is invited conservative or you wouldn't wish they we're open

to everyone. isn't follow often here. as if this is traditional get filtered fish oh heck we haven't got any garlic. after that got cut off. akiva find god knows the doubts the plague those who leave everything behind 6 years ago he left an orthodox community alone in germany he felt completely lost he hopes to spare others that experience. as a dust buster view here in berlin i lacked what we have here how to move his initial 1000000000 different that's why i decided to open something myself for something. that. has become a point of contact for young people who want to break out of the strict ultra orthodox way of life without however abandoning jewish traditions.

people might say that rabbi vine gotten screwed i think his community is live and let live believe and let others. was it. was because i think it doesn't matter whether you believe in god or not and you don't have to believe in god to lead a jewish life to celebrate shabat observe religious holidays to keep up our traditions the food the music was on it on the left has only just arrived in germany it took moshe and his friend is to pray with their strict religious lives and with their families in israel. was such a relief that there was. a fire it was very different. was

a good day. jerusalem not far from the city's famous own town is the world that has turned his back on. the ultra-orthodox district of mia sherry many people here are descended from holocaust survivors they settled here after the 2nd world war. originally the members of strictly observant communities made up just a small percentage of the population of the newly founded jewish state now days they kept the city percent of jerusalem's inhabitants. gives a glimpse of life usually close to outsiders krauss and his wife and stuff he doesn't want to appear before the camera live in a tiny flat we can. 18 children their daily life is dominated by prayers in

religious study this is the life that the newcomers that rabbi vine garden welcomes to germany have fled from. now but the share the meaning of life insists of serving god of the whole day every day every hour because the things that you do have a clear goal in mind of the best things of the day also the easiest lives feel as if you do not live for god there is no kind of life that is what you live like an animal without any sense or purpose. every single aspect of every day life is regulated you all issues checking the black-eyed peas in 6 they will be eaten and rushed hashanah he wants to avoid any impurity blemish in the start at the jewish new year. that.

i might feel is dominated by faith and superstition. a troubled young man from the neighborhood knocks at the door the community has advised him to seek help from strauss. cross ems to remove the evil lie with the lead pouring ritual. that little bit. there. actually there. was a. hymn not lead in water in a pot held over the young man's head which according to tradition helped in cases like this one. and it. it is impossible to say how many commom ones that we have there in 24 hours you follow thousands of them there are $613.00

commandments laid down in the torah but there are tens of thousands of others. the ultra orthodox lifestyle led by cross has barely changed in centuries everything revolves around god the modern world the outside world is mostly with god it is a threat. to children's education is largely religious science or history do not feature on the curriculum girls and boys a married off young and are expected to have large families. the internet is seen as a hotbed of scene that's why smartphones of of didn't only old style cell phones are now out. i never heard of it i believe we aren't extreme it's because the

world is deteriorating so quickly that they say we are extreme. we're not extreme a tall i would say we are upstanding people. all the others are leaning a bit to the left or if become degenerate they look down at us we're not extreme at all we're the most upstanding people that exist at heart i'm a man the. let it be most ultra-orthodox jews in me assure him live from welfare payments in donations. in his wife help out in the kitchen twice a week so they can feed their 18 children. that will give all of them in a while will the daughters absalom the hand from an early age training for their role as housewife and mother when i grow up and that i need the key to the slaughter house wait for you there are you on your bike and come to the slaughter house i hope somebody is going to be there and will open up the need to pick up

a chicken and give him the k. for now it will get back to you and often our. life is strictly regulated to put into religious commandments and traditions that are thousands of years old this gives a sense of stability to many people but a growing number of young altar orthodox jews are unhappy with this regimented life and feel too constrained. your dish crouse is sure that his children will not leave the phone but what if they do. if a child of mine wanted to go out and see the world i would tell them go and see what i can tell you now there is nothing to say. back in germany interest in where akiva find out now is a rabbi he grew up in on trial to doc's community in new york state in the new move

to israel they healy apply kulish cross. he was betrothed to the age of 19 and by the age of 22 he had 2 children. then in 2014 he decided to leave the path mapped out for him he left his family in came to germany and almost broke under the strain of the separation. in the 1st few months that i was in berlin i would not stand there a window on a higher floor because i was afraid i would jump that's how hard it was. just hard to cope with the loneliness the sudden loss of the family which usually spawns those who live by vine gotten loose lucky he found a new partner rosa and jarvis the rabbi of dresden students community and his family did not completely break with him he regularly skype's with his family in

new york state and lets them share his new life. there show you are our new chandelier. so i wouldn't say it's all one dear and. 16. i mean only 7 are here. if you think. his daughters from his 1st marriage mary and marquis are also taking part in the scott cole usually he travels to israel every 3 months to visit them but that's been impossible since february due to the pandemic miria you dressed up for the show about sure i'm ready i've got myself ready who isn't ready markie no milk is ready to follow the vine gardens ex-wife still leads an ultra-orthodox life

she has broken off contact with him and never takes part in the calls with the children. i think that my children are too small to understand that i do not know what they're being told by their teachers and by their mother i do know that they will grow up and they will have. the ability to choose afterwards because another world has opened up for them and once they're in the right age we can have these conversations and make it true is where i want to be. i keep a vine garton wants his children and his congregation to have a choice. that's why he and his girlfriend rosie decided to create a program interested in berlin to help people who live on to orthodox communities. alvar on the bar.

there's no program like this so far but a cute guy keeps being approached about this from. young men and women that left of the doxy and they see he already lives in this secular world but she keeps his in some way a sort of religious nuts a sort of jewishness in within the. within the secular world that's exactly what more than it would like to achieve how you have your own little picture of things. and. there's no problem with. one of my princes doesn't have one sister. this is my little sister this is my nephew moshe is the eldest of chain children the 23 year old misses his family desperately. i don't even know he's abandoned the phone he told his parents he was

going to germany to study the holy scriptures. i think that's part of me not for now that part of the project they're called from. growing for. in his former life going for a walk just for the sake of it was inconceivable. in jerusalem he usually stated nishida studying the torah until 10 pm at night. when i grow up probably until the age of 1415 maybe it was very clear to me that all what you do on all do exist and in the wall it was shipped of all it's all about in nearly every aspect in a large it's towards the ruling of the world what what he wants what he wants for from you in the last year in my. soul riyadh the more open conversations between the guys on a lot of subjects you can call them a bit taboo by the. by the world but then i understand where it finished

we live and to move over. i lost the connection of all. that was 2 years ago i decided to secretly leave the yeshiva and go to a state school without telling his parents he can't live also talks world then he heard about the project in germany designed to support people like him he got in touch with rabbi find out via facebook who arranged for him to come to dressed in the summer. issue of the. house of god. now he's learning german along with others in the program. would get them just didn't so. we'll he. does this 3 are not the feasts you also mention so you know.

there are. a lot of them because you know it. they're similar but for me it's like a new world on the in the truly long. life coffee is half. all the talk in the last is being gay and both i don't really care here all. the. trouble i find gotten has who can i see the classes he also helps moshe and the others to find apartments and furnish them funded by private donations the tough interest in an organization for people in need also does its best. picking up the slack you may be all for the off in the. other where you know rather than

over zealous with the heart of the. people he turned his back on all to also doc's life moshe was never on his own his days was shaped by religion and the family rabbi vine garden is now helping him to cope alone step by step from being on his own has however raised many questions. just open the question say that i can if god exist positive what it's all for me to walk through the door with or. i don't feel like religion is is part. of the rabbi hopes to help him deal with such extensional problems in particular he's encouraging moshe and the others to redefine their relationship to religion and teaches them the torah interest in synagogue. the ultra orthodox god is very present in your life from him on a daily basis she cares which you put on 1st and which show you tie 1st he

cares which which hand you wipe your with in the bathroom. she is very busy with you. masterbating that's one of the worst things is that. at some point he just vanished. so the closest person to me that was the viewer from the moment i was born until the moment i believe he doesn't exist just vanished all the sudden so when i lost my beliefs in that specific god that i grew up on. i had to find a reason why the wake up in the morning what to do anything. to work why to. just go on my life i learned with time. how to you could say invent my own god or find a god i could live with. and that god has nothing to do with.

the ultraorthodox god. not only that we don't believe that al gore gave us these here we believe it was written by people why is it sacred to us. it's not holy it's important and what's the difference between holy and important that one is religious and the other is cultural. i would say that we grew up in a cult and a society that run the self very similar to north korea it's very hard for people that grew up in this world to be integrated into the western society anywhere in the world. but it is possible and find gotten is convinced others can do it too. but why do young jews go to germany of all places to the country responsible for the holocaust and where anti semitism is on the rise again the answer is complicated just how complicated

became clear as he must september find god is on his way to multiple with the trial is being held of a man accused of attacking a synagogue in holland in 2019. going to. stop being. find gotten has come to lend his support to one of the women who survived the attack. christina feist was there when an attack unsuccessfully attempted to blast his way into the synagogue. one year on she still has not been able to process her experience. i'm incredibly tired and worn out and exhausted i mean i've worked for it anymore. the rabbi wants to help her speak about it again in preparation for the trial and i

. think the most important thing to do today is. the only. i think that. the job of the one general is to be here for people when they're invited. and. many times just being there is enough. to rabbi doesn't stray from the side of his old friend on the day of her difficult court appearance. in the trial christina finest will have to relive those terrifying hours. hours in which 2 people in the vicinity with 5 live shot by the attack on. the state prosecutor's office has charged the suspect with 2 counts of murder and $68.00 counts of attempted murder the whole trial is forcing akiva to re-examine his relationship to germany. we have

a very complicated relationship with germany in general both my grandparents when i was shoots and i think that. the general german population are not masses and they feel terrible about what happened. and it looks like they're trying to do whatever they can to make it right with us. i personally never experience anything negative i do feel the looks from all directions when i'm walking the streets but looking is of course legal and i think the bed is one of my goals why i walk around with a keeper of the street so that people see it and get used to it that we're part of the culture or part of society and of course germany has a very big problem with these at the summits are here and they're dangerous and

they want to kill us and this should be a wake up call for germany to get their house in order this cannot continue. nevertheless the rabbi firmly believes that jewish life is possible in germany and that's why his set up his project here. in berlin a long time friend is an example of how a fresh start in germany can succeed. to talk of a ben human right has invited the rabbi to attend to 6 edition right was blown into an ultra religious israeli family he's been living in berlin for a living he is now jewish identity and jewish life in germany and the major themes in his work. the owner. of the the the owner of the area around

the. area was he's dedicated his latest words to the survivors of the holler attack. he lives very live we live as we live. and there are enough people who are also tolerant and open and often is for the e-mails or extremes missed there will always be extremists and my work also deals with the effects of anti semitism and i think that this was a bridge but i would also like to show the light radiated by the people who live here in berlin and feel good to show the good aspects as a thing to test. back

interest in their new arrivals from israel. will be the 1st motion are not just minutes of reuniting his girlfriend minucci talk he knows how important in particular these initial contacts are. valuable but . i lived to see 4 years ago. and like elizabeth all the time because you know you look knowledgeable this is. not really us you do there really was a low life and i guess i feel like. me that it is all out to. let me out on this earth that. that is something you. will. pay and.

everyone needs to find his own but don't worry what he wants to achieve there. it's a good place for young. people come true have. you seen. you can build a life here on. c.n.n. the leader for. the 1st stop begins for the couple with a new apartment. that was arranged by rabbi akiva find out. who of rumi and minucci i only know from video calls up to now. the moustache is new for germany a very good you have a new name yes obviously not alexander but that's ok for germany isn't it for a russian yes but my name is of rama like sound always a little bit. then the rabbi shows the new comers around drizzt and he also takes them to an old cynical that he would like to bring to life again because many of

the new fossils as possible. i'm not building a new community i'm building a community. as part of the community. we need younger people here to strengthen the community here and i think that tracing is a very good place for this i think that. it's not going to be a long time to have a huge hit by a huge group of students here good. every

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this is g.w. news live from berlin tonight the protests in me and there are reports of shots being fired at just hours thousands turned out across the country again one day even as police broke up peaceful and trying to demonstrations with troops now on some city streets there are fears a violent crackdown may be in the making also coming up a diplomatic route over prisoners turkey is not happy with the way america has reacted to the killing of 13 turkish prisoners in northern iraq.