it’s not that being a huset is
necessarily so bad but there’s something
so desirable about just being your own
man I started tasting food that wasn’t
kosher like bacon and sausage and going
to McDonald’s and stuff like that they
always told me it was so bad but when
you take that bite out of it and it’s
juicy and tasty it was I can how can
this be bad welcome to watchmojo.com i’m
your host Layla and I’m with Eric Scott
who’s the director of leaving the fold
his third documentary film about what
can happen when a Hasidic Jew is born
into this but doesn’t really belong what
led you to explore these people’s
experiences leaving Hasidism the stories
that I heard about these kids who had
left and they were very powerful and
they were very poignant for example one
one kid who in Jerusalem with left was
in a his sister was killed in a suicide
bomb by a suicide bomb in the
ultra-orthodox quarter of Jerusalem and
the next day he got a telephone call for
example and the uncle said now your
parents have two dead children so don’t
come to the show in other words he was
dead too and so was the sister I never
realized his being a secular Jew with
what stakes were involved with someone
who leaves the fold actually goes
through and does it what kind of
opportunities and challenges await
people when they do live for any boy or
girl who leaves the Hasidic world often
they don’t have any secular education in
Israel we filmed a teacher who teaches
these kids math you say to a city kid
I’ll meet you on the street parallel to
this one and they’ll say what’s parallel
well the notions of math none that’s the
gray to a grade three level so their
knowledge Ivan never mind all the
cultural references they know what’s
Greece what’s what’s talking heads
what’s what’s what’s what’s rock and
roll what’s all this stuff with mortar
movies kids go into a movie for the
first time when they leave the fold and
they here they hear gunshots and they
don’t know how to react they never seen
a film before how do these young people
who reject the Hasidic movement relate
to secular Jews being Jewish is a
multi-layered thing it’s a religious
identity it’s an ethnic identity it’s a
cultural identity one could leave the
acidic world and still feel ethnically
jewish and still feel culturally jewish
but not necessarily Hasidic or religious
it means seeking another aspect of their
identity or finding a place for
themselves
the world that’s not necessarily defined
by huset ism and being an huset why are
women less likely to leave the fold
there’s less immediate surveillance of
the guys versus the girls at the same
time for girls the window of wanting to
leave as much shorter because many
Hasidic girls get married around 18 so
at 16 you sort of decide that this isn’t
your world and this is not what you want
me you’ve got to move fast because were
18 they’re arranging a marriage for you
and by 19 you’re pregnant with a kid
everyone will learn a lot from this film
were you making it for anyone in
particular I made the film because I
thought it was an important story to
tell for parents of all nationalities
because essentially it’s about a
relationship between parents and
children perhaps if parents can see
themselves in the pressures that they’re
exerting upon their own kids to conform
to something but maybe this film will
make the move stop for a second and
pause and think about where they’re
going in their own actions towards their
own children and the pressures that they
bring to bear upon them to choose a path
that may be what they want but not
necessarily with their kids choose and
on a daily basis I think about the boys
I pray for them
there’s a very very small chance that
the world view you’ve inherited is
exactly the way it is
necessarily so bad but there’s something
so desirable about just being your own
man I started tasting food that wasn’t
kosher like bacon and sausage and going
to McDonald’s and stuff like that they
always told me it was so bad but when
you take that bite out of it and it’s
juicy and tasty it was I can how can
this be bad welcome to watchmojo.com i’m
your host Layla and I’m with Eric Scott
who’s the director of leaving the fold
his third documentary film about what
can happen when a Hasidic Jew is born
into this but doesn’t really belong what
led you to explore these people’s
experiences leaving Hasidism the stories
that I heard about these kids who had
left and they were very powerful and
they were very poignant for example one
one kid who in Jerusalem with left was
in a his sister was killed in a suicide
bomb by a suicide bomb in the
ultra-orthodox quarter of Jerusalem and
the next day he got a telephone call for
example and the uncle said now your
parents have two dead children so don’t
come to the show in other words he was
dead too and so was the sister I never
realized his being a secular Jew with
what stakes were involved with someone
who leaves the fold actually goes
through and does it what kind of
opportunities and challenges await
people when they do live for any boy or
girl who leaves the Hasidic world often
they don’t have any secular education in
Israel we filmed a teacher who teaches
these kids math you say to a city kid
I’ll meet you on the street parallel to
this one and they’ll say what’s parallel
well the notions of math none that’s the
gray to a grade three level so their
knowledge Ivan never mind all the
cultural references they know what’s
Greece what’s what’s talking heads
what’s what’s what’s what’s rock and
roll what’s all this stuff with mortar
movies kids go into a movie for the
first time when they leave the fold and
they here they hear gunshots and they
don’t know how to react they never seen
a film before how do these young people
who reject the Hasidic movement relate
to secular Jews being Jewish is a
multi-layered thing it’s a religious
identity it’s an ethnic identity it’s a
cultural identity one could leave the
acidic world and still feel ethnically
jewish and still feel culturally jewish
but not necessarily Hasidic or religious
it means seeking another aspect of their
identity or finding a place for
themselves
the world that’s not necessarily defined
by huset ism and being an huset why are
women less likely to leave the fold
there’s less immediate surveillance of
the guys versus the girls at the same
time for girls the window of wanting to
leave as much shorter because many
Hasidic girls get married around 18 so
at 16 you sort of decide that this isn’t
your world and this is not what you want
me you’ve got to move fast because were
18 they’re arranging a marriage for you
and by 19 you’re pregnant with a kid
everyone will learn a lot from this film
were you making it for anyone in
particular I made the film because I
thought it was an important story to
tell for parents of all nationalities
because essentially it’s about a
relationship between parents and
children perhaps if parents can see
themselves in the pressures that they’re
exerting upon their own kids to conform
to something but maybe this film will
make the move stop for a second and
pause and think about where they’re
going in their own actions towards their
own children and the pressures that they
bring to bear upon them to choose a path
that may be what they want but not
necessarily with their kids choose and
on a daily basis I think about the boys
I pray for them
there’s a very very small chance that
the world view you’ve inherited is
exactly the way it is
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