Naomi Ragen's 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, mother of 12, leaves her home and stays with a friend. The community's "modesty squad" tries in vain to force her to go back. Her friend is physically attacked, her arm and leg broken. The rabbi's wife is punished: she is cut off from her children, against her will.

Product Description: Refreshingly off-beat new comedy-drama about rebelling against your roots. Inspired by real-life crisis in Jewish community.

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Product Description: Still the Night is a celebration of survival?the story of two young women who were separated from their parents during the Second World War, and wander through Poland, pretending not to be Jewish. Theresa Tova has fashioned from true stories a moving, heart-rending and uplifting drama of survival against all odds and punctuated it with songs from the Holocaust era...read more

Product Description: Restoring the Jewish half-genius in women's drama, this collection powerfully conveys the exile of Jewish womanhood within the community, the traumas of the Holocaust on victim and survivor, Black-Jewish confrontation, Arab-Israeli conflict, and other topics. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)