Women's Minyan

Womens Minyan is Naomi Ragens first play, which premiered in July 2002 at Habima National Theater in Tel Aviv. It is based on a true story: a Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) woman, wife of a rabbi and mother of twelve, leaves her home and stays with a friend. The communitys modesty squad tries in vain to force her to go back. Her friend is physically attacked, her arm and leg broken. The rabbis wife is punished: she is cut off from her children, against her will.