yeah this look of shock like wow there's a jew at our school that does 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 that cults and in a society that runs very similar to north korea. i keep a 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 reject on principle.

enough i'm sure the if you do not live for god but has no kind of life with you live like an animal without any sense or purpose in it it. but 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's. the key to find god it is a rabbi this evening he's leading prayers for a very special community many of the juicy have quit ultra-orthodox communities in the united states or israel. and chimney there trying to lead their own lives attempting to establish a more relaxed. relationship to god. with the help of rep i find out.

all things in the east even the people who don't want to remain observant are still interested in these traditions these are targets on. earth i find god months to give a new spiritual high a new family to those who have left it all to orthodox communities. he regularly bites people to cook and eat together for the chabad christian 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 orthodox jews conservative jews non jews everyone is invited with even your. wish that we're open to everyone.

who isn't follow often here. this is this is traditional good filter fish. oh heck we haven't got any garlic if. i select the color of. a kiva find god knows the doubts that plagued 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 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. people might say that rabbi vine gotten screwed over his community is live

and let live believe and let others believe. that 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. i rushed upon it on the left here has only just arrived in germany it took moshe and his friend jonathan is to pray with their strict religious lives and with their families in israel. some are a very friendly fire there was. a fire it was it's very different there was almost the you

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 mia sherry many people here are descended from holocaust survivors there subtlety and 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 kept 30 percent of jerusalem's inhabitants. huge krauss is one of them unlike the ultra orthodox families of moshe barnett and others he is prepared to give us

a glimpse of life usually close to outsiders kraus and his wife esta who doesn't want to appear before the camera live in a tiny flat with their 18 children their daily life is dominated by prayers been 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 she insists of serving god of the whole day every day every hour because the things that you do with a clear goal in mind of the best things of that they are also the easiest lives for . if you do not live for god there is no kind of life. you live like an animal without any scent so perfect. that 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. he wants to avoid any impurity play machine the start of the

jewish new year. that it is. my life he 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 within that 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

commandments that we have there in 24 hours he followed 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 lived 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 and married off young and are expected to have large families. the internet is seen as a hotbed of see that's why smartphones of have didn't only old style cell phones

are allowed. 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 when. to extreme a tall i would say we are upstanding people. all the others are leaning a bit to the left or of become degenerate they look down at us we're not extreme at all with the most upstanding people that exist in the miami area. 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 none of. the daughters have to lend a 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 they want 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 and give him the k. for now it will give 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 around happy with this regimented life and feel too constrained. kraus is sure that his children will not leave the phone but what if they do. so 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 an altar all the docks community in new york state in the new move to israel there he lived like you'll destroy us. 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. and 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. it was hard to cope with the loneliness the sudden loss of the family which each response those who live by vine got and was lucky he found a new partner rosa and

a job as the rabbi of dresden student community and his family did not completely break with him. he regularly scallops with his family in new york state and lets them share his new life that i show you our new chandelier. if i wouldn't say so when you're in. 16. i mean only 7 are here. his daughters from his 1st marriage mary and markie 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 act the more he follows the vine got an 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 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 they want to be. i keep a vine gartmore it's his children and his congregation to have a choice that's why he and his girlfriend rosa decided to create a program interested in berlin to help people who live on 2 orthodox communities.

alvar on the. god of. yours there's no program like this so far but. keeps being approached about this from. young men and women that left of the doxy and they see he 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. and. this is my problem. one of my princes doesn't have twin sisters this is my little sister this is my nephew moshe 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 whole descriptions. i think it's part of me a guy thing not for now that part of the book the good from it keep going for. in his former life going for you just for the sake of it was inconceivable. in jerusalem he usually stayed nishida studying the torah until 10 pm at night. when iraq probably until the age of $1415.00 maybe it was very clear to me is after all what you're doing all do exist and in the wall it's all ship or it's all about in nearly every aspect in the large it's towards the end of all 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 maybe taboo by. by the world but then i understand where it's finished we're going to live and to move over. i lost the connection a call. 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 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 in this summer. issue of the. ousts gouty. now he's learning german along with others in the program. run the program just think so.

you really. got this reality out there is also mention to you. they are very low on the call know it. they're similar but for me it's like a new world for the in the truly long. line of coffee is half if after. all the talk in the last has been doing both. should really care here all. the. trouble i find god in has who can rise 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 doesn't speak. for picking up

the slack maybe also go off in the. other where you know whether or not it was the father. before 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. just open the question say right now if god exists 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 never nation shift to religion and teaches them the torah interest and new 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 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 to do anything like the work. just gone 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. is not only that we don't believe that al gore gave us this 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 south 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 please him last 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 have 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. to leave you. i think that. the job of the right wing general is to be here for people when they're invited. and. when it ends just being there is enough. the rabbi doesn't stray from his 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 was fatally shot by the attacker. 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 read some of his relationship to germany and. 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 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 walk in the street but. looking is of course legal and i think that that is one of my goals why i walk around with a keep 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. these at this summit 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 projects here. in berlin a long time friend is an example of how a fresh start in germany can succeed. photographer benjamin right has invited the rabbi to attend to 6 edition. was born 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 of the major things in his work. the owner.

of the owner of the area around the area. that i was he's dedicated his latest works to the survivors of the holler attack. you live in fear we live as we live. and there are enough people who are also tolerant and open and often is for females or missed there will always be extremists and my work also deals with the effects of anti-semitism and this is right this was a bridge interested 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 this is going to test their. back interest and 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 my identity 4 years ago. and that he was. all important because real you know coming from places that. not really prepare us to do really was a low life and i guess when you make. me

that. allowed to. let me out on this and i think that. that is something. they have. several minutes to find his own but don't worry what he wants to achieve. it's a good place for young. people to come try. you see. you can be in life you. think there's nothing you can fall to. the fresh start begins for the couple with a new apartment. that was arranged by rabbi akiva vine gotten. to have 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 not alexander but that's ok for germany isn't it for a russian yes but my name is of rumbling sound is that all of it. then the rabbi

shows the new comers around traced and he also takes them to an old cynical that he would like to bring to life again with as 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 tres in is a very good place for those i think that. it's not going to be a long time to have a huge of a huge group of students here good. eco

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