Oy gevalt! Formerly Hasidic Jews eye reality TV show

A proposed new reality TV show will follow the lives of four formerly ultra-Orthodox Jews who have left the fold and are adjusting to life amid the sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll of the secular world.

צילום: Facebook // From black hat to black sheep. Luzer Twersky in a posed photo on his Facebook page.

A proposed new reality TV show will follow the lives of four formerly ultra-Orthodox Jews who have left the fold and are adjusting to life amid the sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll of the secular world, according to media reports. The show, whose working title is "The Unchosen Ones," according to the New York Daily News or "Shunned," according to the New York Post, is being produced by Noah Scheinmann at No Regrets Entertainment, and is currently being shopped to U.S. television networks.

Nicknamed "Jewsy Shore," by the New York Post, the show currently has three stars and is searching for a fourth. Luzer Twerksy, 26, was one of 12 children of a prominent rabbi in Brooklyn's Boro Park neighborhood. Following an unhappy arranged marriage at age 19, the father of two became curious about the world outside his insular community. He began to sow his wild oats and finally became an atheist, he said, after an intense conversation with a lap dancer.

"A lot of things are new to me," he told the New York Post. "I saw 'Star Wars' for the first time last year," he said. "It’s interesting. At least now I can understand what people are talking about; 'May the force be with you.'"

The show's other two stars, Pearl Perry Reich, 30, and Shauli Grossman, 24, are currently dating. Reich, also the daughter of a prominent rabbi, is currently embroiled in a divorce and custody battle for her four children against a Hasidic husband she described as "abusive." The blond aspiring actress and model told the New York Post she joined the cast to create a more positive Judaism as well as "to get my face out there."

Twersky, for his part, told the New York Post that he is in a committed relationship with a blond, Irish-Catholic woman from Arkansas.

"She’s as shiksa as they come," he told the newspaper.

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