The Saturday Wife

The Saturday Wife

In The Saturday Wife, Ragen utilizes her fluid writing style – rich with charm and detail – to break new ground as she harnesses satire to expose a world filled with contradiction.

Beautiful, blond, materialistic Delilah Levy steps into a life she could have never imagined when in a moment of panic she decides to marry a sincere Rabbinical student. But the reality of becoming a paragon of virtue for a demanding and hypocritical congregation leads sexy Delilah into a vortex of shocking choices which spiral out of control into a catastrophe which is as sadly believable as it is wildly amusing.

Told with immense warmth, fascinating insight, and wicked humor, The Saturday Wife depicts the pitched and often losing battle of all of us as we struggle to hold on to our faith and our values amid the often delicious temptations of the modern world.

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The Hebrew version of The Saturday Wife

“Naomi Ragen hooks the reader from the first word and doesn’t let go until the last. I can’t wait to catch up on her past novels.”
Marcia Blumenthal Lyons

“The pleasure of this novel is in its mercilessness, with Ragen raising the stakes until the very end.”
Publishers Weekly
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.
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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.

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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.

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