Tag: Off The Derech
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“Off the Derech” (literally “off the path”) is the Orthodox-Jewish term for someone who has left religious observance, particularly young people leaving the community of origin. Dr. Guedalia worked with these families through her clinical practice and Nefesh Israel.
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'Off-The-Derech' From Off-To-The-Side: A Different Perspective
Dr. Judith Guedalia © 2008 and Mr. Chaim K. "Don't make me into some kind of " Hacham b'Leila. " Literally this means a wise-man-of-the-night, figuratively, advice by…
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Hang In There: Larvae, Pupae Metamorphose and Do Become Functioning Adults
" Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's form…
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Off the Path but on the Derech: An Unusual Travelogue
Firstly, I would like to paraphrase Lyndon Baines Johnson, when, in his inaugural speech in the Senate, after President Kennedy's murder, he said: I would give anything not to be…