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

even if i am sure the if you do not live for god but has no kind of life that you live like an animal without any sense or purpose it is it. but more and more young adults choose no longer want to devote their lives to god and surprisingly many of them across. the it's friday evening the start of the jewish day of rest and celebration. 'd there. to keep a fine garden 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. and generally they're trying to lead their own lives attempting to establish a more or less. relationship to god. with the help of rep i find out.

you have. often seen a shift even the people who don't want to remain observant are still interested in these traditions these are targets on. for 5000 got months to give a new spiritual hive a new family to those who have left their own orthodox communities. he regularly invites people to cook and eat together for the chabad cuisine the community often means a loss of contact with their family this is where find gutnick on scene everyone is welcome here. this is common in the mission for everyone is invited to come here it's a mix of x. orthodox israelis germans liberal jews orthodox jews conservative jews non jews everyone is invited conservative or you would. wish you we're open to everyone and

. isn't fall off and here. this is this is traditional good filter fish. oh heck we haven't got any garlic if. i select that color of. akiva find god knows the dust the plate 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 help me with his initial 1000000000 defamer that's why i decided to open something myself with a sound. 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. that it is our. people and say that rabbi vine gotten screwed over his

community is live and let live believe and let others believe. 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 our pound traditions the food the music and. i rushed upon it on the left has only just arrived in germany it took moshe and his friend donna is to pray with their strict religious lives and with their families in israel. some are a very brave. there was. a fire and. it's very different there was a more player who thought it was.

jerusalem not far from the city's famous. town is the world that moshe barnett has turned his back on. the ultra-orthodox district of manchuria 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 in uni found a jewish state now days they account for 30 percent of jerusalem's inhabitants. huge krauss is one of them unlike the ultra orthodox families of moshe bonnet and others he is prepared to give us a glimpse of

a life usually close to outsiders krausen his wife esta who doesn't want to appear before the camera live in a tiny flat with 18 children their daily life is dominated by praying in religious study this is the life that the newcomers that rabbi vine got and welcomes to germany have fled from. now but the share the meaning of life consists of serving god of the whole day every day every hour because the things that you do with a clear goal in mind are the best things about it of the day also the easiest lives feel as if you do not live for god but is no kind of life. you live like an animal without any sense or purpose. that every single aspect of every day life is regulated ulysses checking the black-eyed peas for insects they will be eaten at rush hashanah he wants to avoid any impurity play machine the start of the

jewish new year. that was this your. life my fear 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. krauss and to remove the evil lie with the lead pouring ritual. that little bit. there. i just. gave. him notes lead in water in a pot held over the young man's head which according to tradition help in cases like this one. bit. it is impossible to say how many

commom and it's 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 regarded as 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 c.

that's why smart phones of a beaten only old style cell phones are allowed. that i never heard of it's i believe we aren't extreme it's because the world is deteriorating so quickly that they say we are extreme. not extreme a tall i would say we are upstanding people. all the others are leaning a bit to the left or if become the general that they look down at us we're not extreme at all with the most upstanding people that exist i'm a male. that it will most ultra-orthodox jews in me assure him live from welfare payments in donations. in his wife's help out in the kitchen twice a week so they can feed their 18 children. that will give all of them but a. little the daughters absalom the hand from an early age trying for their role as housewife and mother when i grow up i think i need the key to the slaughter house

wait for you there are you on your bike out 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 from the cave for now it will get back to you in half an hour so. life is strictly regulated according to 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. crouse is sure that his children will not leave the phone. but what if they do. that 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 ultra-orthodox community in new york state in the new move to israel. there he lived like 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 and came to germany and almost broke under the strain of the separation. in the 1st few months 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. it was hard to cope with the loneliness the sudden loss of the family which you see spurns those who live by vine gottman was lucky he found a new partner rosa and

a job as the rabbi of dresden stu's 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. that they show you our national air. so i was in the same sort of gear in. 16. i mean only 7 are here. cooks his daughters from his 1st marriage mary and markie are also taking part in the skype call usually he travels to israel every 3 months to visit them but that's been impossible since deputy chief of the pandemic miri you dressed up for the show about sure i'm ready i've got myself ready who isn't ready markie you know

milk is ready to the more traditional of 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 point to standards i do not know what they're being told by their teachers and by their mother i do you. i know that they will grow up and they will have. the ability to choose after words because. another world has opened up for them and once they're in the right age we can have these conversations and they can choose where i want to be. i keep a vine dark months 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 all to orthodox communities . of.

god of. course there is no program like this so far but cuba keeps being approached about this from. young men and women that left of the doxy and they see the already lives in the secular world but she keeps his in some way a sort of religiousness a sort of church and it's in within the. within the secular world that's exactly what more than it would like to achieve. victory things. and. this is my problem. one of my princess doesn't have twin sisters this is my little sister this is my nephew. is the eldest of 10 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 i think not for now that part of the brain the good from it keep growing for. in his former life going for you just for the sake of it was inconceivable. in jerusalem they usually stay nice shiva studying the torah until 10 pm at night. when i grow up probably until the age of $1415.00 maybe it was very clear to me is after all what should do or now do exist and in the wall it was shipped of all it's all about in nearly every aspect of a large it's towards the ruling of the world what he wants what he wants for from you in the last. year and so riyadh the more open conversations between the guys

on a lot of objects. may be taboo by the. by the world but then i understand where it's finished we are in that pollution to move over. i lost the connection a. papist 2 years ago i decided to secretly leave the yeshiva and go to a state school without telling his parents he can't least meet ultraorthodox 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 this summer. the ousts all got out. now he's learning german along with others in the program. one would get them just didn't so.

we'll he. does this 3 out of the feasts and also mention to you. there are a lot of them called know that. similar but for me it's like a new world for the in the truly long auburn line coffee is after. all the talk in the last is playing games with i don't believe you're here to. provide fine garden has been nice to the classes he also helps moshe and the others to find apartments and furnish them funded by private donations to toughen interest in an organization for people in need also does its best. pick it up.

maybe also go off in the. other where you know whether the results are from other. people he turned his back on all to also talks 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. to starting the question saying do i think if god exist positive what it's all for me to walk through the door when it's all. i don't feel like religion is is part of me. 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 ultraorthodox god is

very present in your life from him on a daily basis she cares which you put on 1st and with sure you tie 1st he cares which which hand you wipe your with in the bathroom. she is very busy with your. 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 to wake up in the morning want to do anything. to work why to. just go in my life i learned with time. how to you could say

invent my own god or find the god i could live with. and that god has nothing to do with the ultra orthodox god. i'm 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 one it's 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 fine 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 the synagogue in hull and 2019. being feel. fine 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. job when general is to review for people when they're invited. and. many times just being there is enough. the rabbi doesn't stray from the side of his own 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 fatally shot by the attack on. the state prosecutor's office has charged the suspect with 2 counts of murder and 68 counts of attempted murder the whole trial is forcing to keep it to

re-examine his relationship to germany. we have a very complicated relationship with germany in general both my grandparents when our shoots and i think that the general german population. are not nazis 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 walk in the street but looking is of course legal and i think the bed is one of my goals why i walk around with a keeper on 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. is at the summit or 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 to continue. nevertheless the rabbi firmly believes that jewish life is possible in germany and that's why his set up his projects here. in berlin a long time friend is an example of how a fresh start in germany can succeed. photographer ben human rights 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 11 years now jewish identity and jewish life in germany at the major things in his work. the owner of the.

the. owner of the area around the. area. that i was he's dedicated his latest works to the survivors of the holler attack. live view we live as we live. and there are enough people who are also tolerant and open and often. emails or missed there will always be extremists and my work also deals with the effects of anti-semitism and the thing 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 contest. back interest in their new arrivals from his friends. told me 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 live to see 4 years ago. and i'm like a little boy all the time because you know coming from this is. not really prepare us to do really was a low life and i guess i'm going to take.

me on that if allowed to. let me out on this and i think that. that is another question you. may have. several minutes to find his own but i don't know what he wants to achieve. it's a good cause for young. people come try to. be seen. it could be that i feel. that there is no longer 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 mustaches nude for germany are 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 and all that. 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 with his many of the new findings 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 tres in is a very good place for this i think that. it's not going to be a long time to have a huge and a huge group of students here good. a

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