Women's Minyan
Publisher: Toby Press
Published: March 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9781592641567
Subjects: Drama texts: from c 1900 -; Jewish American Drama; American Contemporary Drama - Individual Authors +; Drama; Fiction - Religious; Ultra-Orthodox Jews; Plays; USA; Jewish women; Christian - General; American; Family; Israel
Description: "Naomi Ragen's first play premiered in 2002 at Israel's National Theater, Habimah, and had its American premiere at Duke University in North Carolina in 2005. It is based on a true story: a Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) woman, wife of a rabbi, mother of twelve, leaves her family for unspecified reasons. The woman is punished; the community's "modesty squad" prevents her from seeing her children, and the friend she is staying with is physically attacked. Desperate to regain access to her children, she determines that the women of her community must stand in judgement, hoping that once they hear the truth of why she left, they will allow her to be reunited with her children."--BOOK JACKET.