Leaving America Behind Snow covered the wings of the plane I boarded at JFK in January 1971, my first flight ever. My husband and I shivered as we boarded the flight to Israel. We had burned our bridges […]
My new book, An Observant Wife, which is a sequel to An Unorthodox Match will be published on September 14th. Here’s a comment by an early reader: “Long before Shtisel and Unorthodox reached television screens, Naomi Ragen had […]
Sometimes a single truth, belatedly discovered, can change one’s world view with surprising swiftness. The article that changed mine was published in Ha’aretz—a newspaper I never read, considering it, like most Israelis, to be far left of the […]
Just a note to let you know that the paperback edition of An Unorthodox Match is officially coming out today, November 24. I’ve also just finished the sequel, An Observant Wife, which takes the love story of Yaakov and […]
Lisa Niver, a wonderful writer and book addict, has written an article for Ms. Magazine’s May 2020 issue about “Books That Will Transport You” out of your lockdown at home during the Covid -17 #stay at home. Among […]
I’m happy to let you know I have a new book coming out this September. It’s called An Unorthodox Match. By the way, it’s already out in Hebrew, as צמאה לך נפשי. I already have lectures set up […]
I found myself at the Kotel, or Western Wall, yesterday. Even though I live within walking distance of this profoundly moving site, the holiest in all Judaism, I don’t actually go very often. But a Bar Mitzvah invitation from […]
Some of you might have heard about the cult pretending to be devout Jews called “Lev Tahor,” wanted all over the world for child abuse and forcing underage girls into marriages with much older men. The prestigious magazine Foreign Policy has published an […]
What happens when rabbis prey on people’s need for holiness? The wave broke slowly. First, one woman from a close-knit National Religious community in Safed approached the town’s chief rabbi, Shmuel Eliyahu, son of Israel’s former Sephardic chief […]
