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“The film was enough to make your blood boil. Bearded hassidim talking about how it was God’s will to spit on girls who didn’t follow the dress code.” “No woman should wait to hear the last kaddish for the obvious reason that women should make their exit before the men, lest they mingle with them… No woman aged less than forty should attend the synagogue for the afternoon and evening services…whether on … …continue reading The Tipping Point “I have finally received some measure of belated justice, and I would like to believe that more will come.” Last week, after five long years of my being dragged through the courts, defamed, libeled and slandered, Israel’s Supreme Court issued a ruling in the Michal Tal case that stated: “There is not and never was any basis whatsoever for any claim of plagiarism or copyright infringement brought against Naomi Ragen in the … …continue reading Bleak House – The Sordid Story of the Michal Tal Case Dr. Michael Factor is an expert in intellectual property law in Israel. He has a blog in which he writes about cases involving copyright infringement. He has just read all 92 pages of the recent judgment against me in the Sarah Shapiro case, and has posted his conclusions, which are very favorable to me. Thank you Michael! Dr. Factor has confirmed what I have believed all along, that I have done nothing … …continue reading More about “Copyright Infringement” בית המשפט העליון קיבל ביום 3/1/2012 את בקשתה של הסופרת נעמי רגן למתן פסק דין, לאחר שבית המשפט המחוזי בירושלים מחק את התביעה בעקבות מותה של התובעת, מיכל טל ז”ל. פסק הדין, שאושר השבוע ע”י בית המשפט העליון (כב’ הנשיאה בייניש , כב’ השופט גרוניס וכב’ השופטת ארבל) דחה את התביעה ,וקבע כי “אין ולא היה כל יסוד לטענה כלשהי בדבר ביצוע של “העתקות” ו”הפרות” זכויות … …continue reading בית המשפט העליון קבע שהסופרת נעמי רגן לא העתיקה The Supreme Court of Israel accepted the appeal of author Naomi Ragen for a verdict in the case brought against her by Michal Tal after the Jerusalem District Court vacated the case following Tal’s death. The verdict on Tuesday by Chief Justice Beinish and Justices Gronis and Arbel, accepted the agreement reached by Ragen and Tal’s heirs, rejecting Tal’s case, stating that “There is not and never was any basis whatsoever for … …continue reading Supreme Court Rules: Author Naomi Ragen Innocent of All Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement in Tal Case Encouraged by my own uneventful ride on a once sex-segregated bus a few months ago, I thought the whole topic was dying down and we were miraculously learning to live and let live. Unfortunately, the story of Tanya Rosenblit has brought the reality of bullying fanaticism masquerading as religious piety roaring back into the headlines again, with greater force than ever. Traveling to the Givat Shaul neighborhood in Jerusalem from her home … …continue reading Fed Up Who or what is convincing apparently non-mentally-ill religious Jewish women to parade around like human laundry baskets? I am referring to the phenomenon of the “Taliban women” recently condemned and lambasted by the Eda Haredit (Badatz) for ironically being a little too modest, even for them. In the beginning, there was one woman in Beit Shemesh (where else?) who decided to cover her head and face with a shawl. Since she herself … …continue reading A Modest Proposal Oh my, oh my, the impassioned (if minuscule) protests we’re seeing against the new amendment to the 1965 libel law, which recently passed its first reading in the Knesset! You’d think that the government was about to legalize strangling budding Woodwards and Bernsteins. MK Shaul Mofaz (Kadima) declared (I’m assuming with a straight face, even if his head was screwed on backwards) that “1984 is already here, and it’s awful.” Kadima leader … …continue reading Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Law? |
Naomi Ragen is an American-born novelist, playwright and journalist who has lived in Jerusalem since 1971 and who writes regularly to her mailing list about Israel and Jewish issues.
Naomi has published eight internationally best selling novels, and is the author of a hit play (Women's Minyan) which has been performed more than 500 times in Israel's National Theatre (Habimah) as well as in the United States and Argentina. She is a tireless advocate for women's rights in Israel, campaigning against gender segregation on Israeli buses and bias in rabbinical courts.
Naomi is a sought-after lecturer all over the world. If your group is interested in hosting Naomi, please click here. I Am Not Sitting in the Back of the Bus (published in the Jewish Chronicle on 23 Feb 2007) - Why, together with other women, I filed suit to put an end to the primitive and degrading gender-segregated bus lines now popping up all over Israel. Read my original article about how I was attacked by a religious fanatic because I refused to move to the back (the "women's section") of a Jerusalem bus. Read about an American woman beaten because she refused to move to the back of a Jerusalem bus. Read my article explaining why segregated buses are just the latest crazy idea of fanatics with too much free time on their hands. Read about haredi women who want to sit with their families and don't want to be forced to crowd together in the back of the bus. Israel Bus Rule Sparks Religious Row - How the liberal western media perceive all this fanaticism. |
October 2011 - The Ghost of Hannah Mendes is published in French as Le Fantôme de Dona Gracia Mendes.
October 2011 - The Tenth Song published in paperback.
May 2011 - Four-time Tony nominee Tovah Feldshuh directs a staged reading of Women's Minyan at New York's Westside Theater. The reading was produced by One Circle Productions, in partnership with Safe Horizon. Watch the reading. Watch an interview with Naomi and Tovah Feldshuh. April 2011 -  The Tenth Song is published in Hebrew, as השיר העשירי.
January 2011 - Israel Supreme Court declares gender segregation on buses illegal, but says women may continue to "voluntarily" move to the back of the bus. 
January 2011 - Jephte's Daughter is published in Italian, as Una moglie a Gerusalemme.
October 2010 - The Tenth Song published.
 October 2010 - Jephte's Daughter is published in French, as fille de Jephte.
November 2010 - Sotah awarded the Prix WiZO for 2010.
June 2009 - Sotah is published in French.
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