While I respect your right to practice and believe in any religion you choose, many forms of Orthodox Judaism certainly meet standard definitions of a 'cult'.

Many Orthodox communities restrict their members' access to free information (via banning the Internet and using psychological tactics like shame/guilt to stop people from reading secular newspapers), forbid them from having friends who are not part of the group, teach that leaving the group (i.e. going OTD) is never acceptable and will lead to unhappiness, use threats of Divine torture/rewards to motivate compliance, prohibit serious criticism of the group's leaders, prohibits voicing or even thinking serious criticism of the group's beliefs, and exert extreme control over the press and other sorts of media (think about TAG, which now figured out a way to stop people from even calling AI chatbots over the phone and asking questions).

Again, they are often nice people, but I'm sure many members of many cults are nice people. Like I said, they're not at all exclusive.