Combines powerful firstperson accounts with incisive scholarly analysis to understand the phenomenon of ultraOrthodox Jews who leave their insular communities and venture into the wider world.In recent years many formerly ultraOrthodox Jews have documented leaving their communities in published stories films and memoirs. This movement is often identified as ampampquotoff the derechampampquot OTD or off the path with the idea that the ampampquotpathampampquot is paved by Jewish law rituals and practices found within their birth communities. This volume tells the powerful stories of people abandoning their religious communities and embarking on uncertain journeys toward new lives and identities within mainstream society.