Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
DINA-PERLA PORTNAAR is a writer, speaker and small business owner who has spoken out recently on a Ted Talk about growing up Jewish orthodox.
She joins MARK to talk about her restrictive Chabad childhood, her stifled individuality, and endless rules.
Dina-Perla discusses patterns from hundreds of closed-up communities -- like the Jewish Orthodox religion -- that she has studied.
#judaism #chabad #belief
00:00 START
01:50 Chabad Judaism
07:10 Dina-Perla's experience
14:43 Leaving orthodoxy
19:00 Patterns within closed-in communities
27:09 Exodus from the Lighthouse
32:16 Advice to those still inside
LINKS FOR DINA-PERLA PORTNAAR
Website: theintegritytalks.com
BOOK: Exodus from the Lighthouse: Shadow Behind and Face to the Sun(Dutch version): amzn.to/3EcutFn
LINKEDIN: nl.linkedin.com/in/dpportnaar
TED TALK: To see the patterns is to see the solutions | Dina-Perla Portnaar | TEDxAmsterdamWomen: bit.ly/3Tlt57V
Article: How to break open closed-up communities and deal with harmful traditional practices: bit.ly/3Vonsat
SEE ALSO:
Footsteps is the only organization in the United States providing comprehensive services to people who have chosen to leave their ultra-Orthodox communities footstepsorg.org
Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam https://jck.nl/
FOOTAGE
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Amsterdam's Jewish History Museum via Ben Powers
Incidental music by the indomitable Chris Zabriskie: chriszabriskie.com
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DINA-PERLA PORTNAAR is a writer, speaker and small business owner who has spoken out recently on a Ted Talk about growing up Jewish orthodox.
She joins MARK to talk about her restrictive Chabad childhood, her stifled individuality, and endless rules.
Dina-Perla discusses patterns from hundreds of closed-up communities -- like the Jewish Orthodox religion -- that she has studied.
#judaism #chabad #belief
00:00 START
01:50 Chabad Judaism
07:10 Dina-Perla's experience
14:43 Leaving orthodoxy
19:00 Patterns within closed-in communities
27:09 Exodus from the Lighthouse
32:16 Advice to those still inside
LINKS FOR DINA-PERLA PORTNAAR
Website: theintegritytalks.com
BOOK: Exodus from the Lighthouse: Shadow Behind and Face to the Sun(Dutch version): amzn.to/3EcutFn
LINKEDIN: nl.linkedin.com/in/dpportnaar
TED TALK: To see the patterns is to see the solutions | Dina-Perla Portnaar | TEDxAmsterdamWomen: bit.ly/3Tlt57V
Article: How to break open closed-up communities and deal with harmful traditional practices: bit.ly/3Vonsat
SEE ALSO:
Footsteps is the only organization in the United States providing comprehensive services to people who have chosen to leave their ultra-Orthodox communities footstepsorg.org
Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam https://jck.nl/
FOOTAGE
Amsterdam Drone Video via DroneVideo4u
Amsterdam Museums Quarter via Amsterdam Travel
Amsterdam's Jewish History Museum via Ben Powers
Incidental music by the indomitable Chris Zabriskie: chriszabriskie.com
Interviews powered by streamyard.com
**********
TALK BELIEFS: Exploring - and challenging - what and why we believe.
The Talk Beliefs YouTube Channel has been online since 2015 and has been featured on Reggie Yates' Extreme UK for BBC 3 Television. Would you like to help support Talk Beliefs or perhaps tell your own story in an interview? Channel inquiries & direct messages: unchainedmind1@gmail.com
Talk Beliefs - In Association with Evolution Soup (Sister Channel).
Follow @TalkBeliefs on Twitter!
Join the Talk Beliefs Facebook Group bit.ly/2fCRLLF
Follow the Talk Beliefs Facebook Page: fb.me/talkbeliefs
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/talkbeliefs
Instagram: instagram.com/talkbeliefs
Tik Tok: @talkbeliefs
Would you like to become a supporter of the Talk Beliefs YouTube channel? Click HERE ow.ly/vn2v30fVYBx
Talk Beliefs Logo Animation by Zaraza Iulian bit.ly/2ytX4Vt
Royalty Free Music via Purple Planet: purple-planet.com
*****
Thinking about leaving your religion? Need to talk?
Recovering From Religion - Find a worldwide support group:
recoveringfromreligion.org
*****
"I love making #talkbeliefs content and appreciate every view, like, and share! Through this channel, people have come to terms with leaving religion, and have taken the first steps to leaving destructive cults. It's my goal to continue to help and educate. Thank you all for your support." ~ Mark :-)
Evolution Soup - The World of Evolution
YouTube: goo.gl/X19xK6
Podcast: evolutionsoup.buzzsprout.com
Instagram: instagram.com/evolution_soup
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/evolutionsoup
**********
DISCLAIMER:
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
#atheism #science #reason #humanism #christianity #evolution #creation #creationism #belief #secular #mormon #freethinker #darwin #humanist #cult #cults #atheist #humanist #mormon #religion #bookofmormon #jehovah #harekrishna #scientology #leahremini #scientologyandtheaftermath #secularism #dawkins #beliefs #creationist #paleo #cultsandextremebeliefs #paleoanthrology #exjw #exmormon #exchristian #exscientologist
