Halacha states that one must turn away a ger or giyores a few times before we finally open up our arms and embrace them in the loving embrace the frum community is so famous for; after the geirus they get…
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Why People Go OTD
With the recent release of the mega-hit of the OTD world – Shulem Deen’s memoir “All Who Go Do Not Return“, the age-old question has come up again: why do people go OTD? Our rebbeim tell us, and we are…
Chizzuk from Gdi Oish
Erev Pesach is not a time for satire or jokes. We can spend all year debating whether the ancient Hebrews really built the pyramids or whether they were in Egypt altogether; but on Erev Pesach we put all that aside…
On the Rabbi/OTD Summit & Other Missives
Being a member in good standing of the OTD community, as well as a member in poor standing in the frum community, I have a right, and a duty, to the Frum Satire community, which has no standing in either…
Off The Derech halachic committee wonders who is really OTD
With the Off The Derech community growing at such a rapid pace, the Rabbonom who set community hashkafa have been unable to keep up. Splinter groups keep forming and I think they’ve reached a critical point, just last week, several…
Yaakov Avinu Had a Dream
One of the surest signs that someone is going off the derech is when they start speaking highly of Martin Luther King. These days with everyone online we’re exposed to liberals and worse; liberal Jews, who still maintain their Jewishness…
Kiruv Rabbi comes up with 10 reasons kids go off the derech
Just like the shidduch crisis before, the OTD crisis is hitting the frum community pretty hard. There are seminars, chinuch round tables, asifas, and a lot of discussion behind the scenes amongst gedolim and rabonom as to how to fix…
Why people go off the derech: An Illustration
I believe this was created by Leah Vincent and shown to me by Rachmuna Litzlon.
10 ways that the internet has changed the frum community
When the internet first started becoming popular, most of the frum community thought it was another fad that they could do without and force others to do without. You had to sign forms claiming that you didn’t have it in…
Would you break shabbos for $1000?
I always figured that the Off The Derech community was immune to scandal, after all many of the members had left Orthodoxy due to the hypocrisy perpetuated on a daily basis by its leaders. Yet, they are prone to the…
Rabbis begin the war on OTD
The interviews of Rachmuna Litzlon last week were such a huge success that Rabbi Yitzchok Fingerer himself contacted me for advice with regarding how to do kiruv to folks who are already frum, or supposedly frum. After reading the interviews…
Interview with an Off The Derech community leader Part2
The interview was too long for one post and so here you have it, part two of the interview with Rachmuna Litzlon, one of the Off The Derech community leaders. We don’t need another long introduction. I should mention that…
Interview with an Off The Derech community leader
You may remember that guy who was trying to sell his olam habah on Ebay, but Rachmuna Litzlon AKA Ari Mandel is also one of the Off The Derech community leaders online. Between his overly active Facebook page, groups, twitter,…
Why do people go off the derech? Take part in this OTD Interview
It used to be that going off the derech ensured a lonely existence, you couldn’t tell your friends and family and you mostly suffered in silence. In the past couple of years, the Off The Derech community has gone through…
Off The Derech Israel Tours
Just over a two years ago, Shalom and Micha decided to use their formerly religious mischief to battle the evil they saw perpetuated at the multiple missionary institutions in Jerusalem. Sharing a few victory beers after their first escapade, walking…
Stop trying to make Off The Derech people frum again
I’m not a big fan of kiruv, as many of you know, I believe that the FFB master race has become diluted with Baalei Teshuva and converts who inflict us with their secular culture. I also believe that those who…
Help us save an OTD neshama
I have been wondering when the frum community was going to start sending letters like this out, it seems as if the frum community has decided to ignore the growing OTD movement, because if you ignore it – it doesn’t…
Off The Derech shayala: I’m scared to make a kiddush Hashem
Since you had yourself thrown out of the group (the Off The Derech group), here’s a shaylah for the OTD dayan. Advice needed. I sometimes ride the subway, and when an older person comes into my subway car, I want…
An apology to the Off The Derech community
Apologizing is always hard, because you’re admitting you did something wrong and since much of the time people are insincere when they apologize you may just be furthering your douchieness along. For all of you who don’t know, I wrote…
Imagine an Off The Derech Utopia
Thanks to Love Equality for writing it. Imagine a Neo Hasidic community, where you can believe in evolution, the Big Bang and the FSM, you can play basketball, football and hockey, wear a t-shirt, jeans and Rashi-gatches, unlimited masturbation, loads…
Off The Derech Community writes Halachic Guidelines
In the early 90’s when the Kids At Risk movement began it wasn’t anything to get too excited over, basically a bunch of yeshiva kids with ADHD who would roam from yeshiva to yeshiva until they hit the end of…
If an FFB goes OTD and then comes back on the derech is he considered a BT?
Dear Heshy, I have a predicament which I’m sure you can help me with. I grew up frum, fairly yeshivish by some standards and then during my year in Israel I decided to go off the derech. I have since…
Off the Derech movement is good for the Jews
It seems as if the frum community has just discovered that those who went off the derech may be a problem for future generations of sheep following the grand master bearded fellows who dictate orders about what you can and…
Off the derech people are miserable
I don’t know anyone who’s happy and off the derech. If they were so happy, why would they keep having to tell us religious Jews how silly we are, couldn’t they just be happy with their decision and leave us…
Orthopraxy is way better than going off the derech
Too many people rag on Orthopraxy, the situation in which you look and act like a normal orthodox Jew, yet aren’t a believer, but I think it’s a way better option than going off the derech. You see, when you’re…