Confessions of a Top Recruiting Rabbi’s Wife
Cults to Consciousness
Shelise Ann Sola, Jonathan C Rosales
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Rachel was raised in Israel by Canadian parents who converted to strict Orthodox Judaism as adults. Girls were taught from a very young age that their primary purpose was to become wives and mothers, and the culture emphasized conformity, modesty, and obedience. At 18, after only a few weeks of dating, she became engaged to a man who was in training to become a Rabbi. Not only did she deal with typical hardships that come with that role, but she would become a top recruiter for a separate organization that she now sees as harmful.
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| 0:30.2 | Everybody, welcome back to Colts to Consciousness. My name is Shalise Anzola, and we are bringing |
| 0:34.6 | back a guest today who everyone wanted to hear more from. Thank you so much for |
| 0:38.5 | joining us, Rachel, for a second time. Hi. It's so good to be here. Yes. So your story, specifically |
| 0:45.6 | growing up Orthodox in Israel, I think a lot of people found extremely interesting. You were |
| 0:51.5 | married to 18 to someone who was in training to become a rabbi, would |
| 0:55.8 | eventually become a rabbi. And what we're zooming in on today is your life being a part of |
| 1:01.3 | the group, Aishator, did I pronounce it right? Yep. Aishator, which is specifically an outreach branch |
| 1:08.2 | to bring people to more orthodoxy Judaism. |
| 1:12.6 | So we're going to talk about the difficulties of that, talk about the coercive techniques and how something that appears very beautiful on one hand can also be destructive and harmful. |
| 1:22.6 | On the other hand, your opinions on that entire environment and also the difficulties of being a rabbi's wife and what that meant for you. |
| 1:31.3 | But first, before we dive into that, I think there was a disclaimer or something that you wanted to talk about before we get into your story. |
| 1:39.3 | Yeah, I just want to acknowledge the rise of anti-Semitism that's happening in the world. |
| 1:43.3 | We had an attack in my local community on Thursday. |
| 1:47.0 | My speaking out is not to encourage more hate. |
| 1:49.2 | We should never be hurting people even if we disagree with them. |
| 1:53.0 | My reason for speaking out is for the people who are in this coercive control sects of Judaism |
| 1:58.5 | that need permission, encouragement to see their own stories and to know that they |
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