>>> world where everything plays out fast and in the open at incredible speeds, and just when it seems like we're all in on it and interconnected, there are still a few communities that are not part of it. they're closed off by choice and that would include the sizable population especially here in new york of hasidic jews . a branch of judism that has chosen to doe vote their lives to observance. tonight we're introduced to four young men who chose the heart wrenching choice to leave the fold. and now they're able to give us a look inside their world.
>> this might look like its in another country, but office's happening in brooklyn, new york . the bride's face is completely covered. the groom is not beeping, but instead deep in prayer. the couple met just a few weeks before this day because they're marriage is arranged. he is a rab buy and among the guests.
>> they barely know each other. i met my wife for seven days. we don't marry the one we love, but we love the one we marry.
>> this is a rare look inside the community of the hasidic jews whose members strive e strive for total devotion to the ancient jewish laws .
>> how would an american value understand our value? it will be to the culture values of the 1950s .
>> at the reception, there is total seg regags of the sexes. women on one side and men on the other. the groom doesn't dance with his bride, just other miamis. so understand what it means to be hasidic , consider many in this neighborhood have never seen a movie or watched tv. identifyish, not eng ligs, is the main language . in accordance to bibly cal teachings, men dress alike and women wear wigs. and --
>> the modesty in the dress. the language in the house. standing up for parents. not interrupting when speak are speaking, that is what we have today.
>> remarkably the hasidic community is located right across the city, brooklyn .
>> here among trendy shops, galleries and a lot of bars. yet, just a few blocks away, more than 300,000 hasidic followers have found a way to be isolated. what happens when someone justs wants to know what's on the other side.
>> these four young people made the difficult choice to walk away from the community where they were born and raised.
>> there's no wall around you. there are subways. what keeps people from sort of crossing that line?
>> gentiles will kill you.
>> gentiles will kill you.
>> what they do is they make you think, it's good but forbidden. it's, why would you even want that.
>> what were you taught about holocaust?
>> they say to people like us , you want to go ming well them, look what could happen.
>> these four people all had something in common since they were children. curiosity. when words were blacked out in their school textbooks , they wanted to know what they meant.
>> do you remember words that you were not supposed to know?
>> many words. some are pretty mundane, like dinosaur and universe and gym nasium.
>> and what is it about those words that makes it forbidden.
>> they bring up subjects that they don't want to talk about.
>> subjects like evolution and
as tor: conmy are not taught in their schools.
>> you mentioned gym nasium. which i don't get that.
>> why would we need to need to use that word?
>> to exercise.
>> we don't have that con secht.
>> it's sec u lar.
>> lake most hasidic boys, his education stopped at the anyone of 13. he then studied another one up to 13 hours a day. but he had a burning desire for something more. one day he sneaked away to a forbidden place in manhattan.
>> what did you think?
>> it was a lot to process.
>> he went to the museum of natural history . it changed his life.
>> the first time i saw the dinosaurs, i didn't know what to make of it. i wonder how can it be assembled. there's something so connected about standing mex to a dinosaur. it was just a feeling of --
>> how did you explain sensorship of books and words like dinosaur, gym naus sum.
>> it's an interesting parent. every single parent has to choose what to bring into the house and what not to. they don't believe it's necessary to bring in a lot of doubts and questions.
>> but when someone wants answers and they're looking to leerch the community, they often come here.
>> what most of the individuals are coming to us, what we're seeing is they just want to learn. they want to study physics and they want to study how atomed work and math.
>> lonnie santo runs foot steps, a support group for hasidics that helps teach basics of life.
>> they're im grapts into a country that they're citizens in. some people don't know how to order in a restaurant.
>> or even how to kiss.
>> how do you first kiss someone at 21? first kiss. it -- most people don't get that.
>> sectionalty is just not discussed. in fact, young men and women are not supposed to socialize with each others unless they're family members.
>> it's a normal part of adolescence to have sex wall yearnings.
>> in my place, i was completely ignorant. i didn't know what that meant.
>> when you say you're ignorant, what do you mean?
>> you don't get sex ed , biology classes. you're not taught the birds and bees. nobody knows anything.
>> the word pregnant, we would never say that.
>> but pregnancy is a fact of life. it's common tore them to have 10, 12 children. this is why her parents are disappointed that she first wanted to go to college.
>> i don't want to hurt my parents. if anything i want to make them proud. it's very hard knowing that i won't.
>> today, hiny, age 28 is working on getting her mba. and the others are also following their dreams. melissa is pursuing acting. ary joined the u.s. army and now at 30 is getting a bachelor's degrees. sam graduated college with the biochemistry degree and he recently received a bull bright scholarship to study in berlin. he says those who leave, don't reltz what they have lost.
>> stop crying about what you didn't have. your family's did give you something beautiful. they brought you into beautiful homes, loving parents. that nuke less that they gave you, the sec u lar world would have loved to have.
>> he says he realizes few in the community will ever see this report, but he hoechs this message somehow gets inside.
>> i want them all to know. if you could, if if you think you might not be happy, know you could be happy.
>> dr. nancy snyderman reporting from brooklyn, new york .
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