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Group serves as shelter in storm
for dropouts from Chasidic world
Sue Fishkoff
Ex-Lubavitcher Malkie Schwartz, founding director of Footsteps, a nonprofit group that helps dropouts from the haredi world transition into secular society.
Often cut off from their family and community, Jews who drop out of the Chasidic world face confusion and loneliness. Footsteps, a nonprofit group, helps these dropouts transition into secular society.

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