Keroivim — from the Hebrew word for close ones — is led by people who have walked this road themselves. We know what it means to feel the pull away from Orthodox life, and we know what it means to find our way back. That lived experience is at the heart of everything we do. We work with individuals and families at the crossroads, because we believe that with the right support, much of the צער and עגמת נפש — for everyone involved — can be avoided or at least mitigated.
To help frum adults who are struggling on the margins find a sustainable, healthy, and meaningful place within Orthodox life — by providing support, connection, mediation, and community. The goal is not departure, but belonging.
A frum community in which those who are struggling are drawn closer — not pushed away. Where no family is severed by a moment of crisis, and where individuals can find clarity and relief without losing the community they were raised in.
Naftuli Moster is a nonprofit leader, strategist, fundraiser, and podcaster with a long record of advocacy on behalf of people navigating life within the ultra-Orthodox community.
He founded Keroivim out of a conviction formed over years of working alongside families in crisis — a conviction that the answer to estrangement is almost never rupture. He holds a Master of Social Work, a credential he brings directly to the hands-on family work at the heart of Keroivim's mission.
Naftuli understands, from the inside, both the weight of considering departure and the depth of what families stand to lose. He built Keroivim to make sure they don't have to lose it.
Miriam Moster is a sociologist whose scholarship spans gender, family, religion, identity, culture, and memory. Her work sits at the intersection of how communities form, how they fracture, and how individuals negotiate belonging within them.
She brings to Keroivim the perspective of a researcher who has spent her career studying precisely the forces — social, cultural, religious — that pull families apart and the conditions under which they can find their way back to one another. She holds a PhD in Sociology from a leading research university.
Miriam's research-grounded understanding of community and belonging shapes every dimension of how Keroivim approaches family work — ensuring that the practice is rooted not only in compassion, but in a rigorous understanding of what actually holds families together through change.
Everything shared with us is held in strict confidence. There's no pressure and no agenda — only a genuine desire to help you find your way.
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