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I realized early on that my audience doesn’t need the education, they don’t need the political facts. . . . what they needed more than anything was to love their Judaism and have inspiration. 

The study aims to develop a more robust and wide-ranging understanding of the different ways and reasons people leave Orthodoxy.

When those raised Orthodox don’t stay Orthodox, it is seen—and indeed deeply felt—as a communal failure, as if one of the central functions of the community itself is broken.