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Orthodox And Progressive Women Unite To Save Israel From Fundamentalism

The Feminists Of Zion: Orthodox And Progressive Women Unite Against Fundamentalism
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Associate Editor, Huffington Post Religion

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women pray during a ceremony at the grave site of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai in the northern Israeli village of Meron on April 28, 2013 at the start of the day-long holiday of Lag Baomer that commemorates the Jewish scholar's death. Thousands of religious Jews light large bonfires all night long and visit the shrine of Bar Yochai, one of the most prominent sages in Jewish history, during the holiday. AFP PHOTO/MENAHEM KAHANA (Photo credit should read MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images)
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women pray during a ceremony at the grave site of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai in the northern Israeli village of Meron on April 28, 2013 at the start of the day-long holiday of Lag Baomer that commemorates the Jewish scholar's death. Thousands of religious Jews light large bonfires all night long and visit the shrine of Bar Yochai, one of the most prominent sages in Jewish history, during the holiday. AFP PHOTO/MENAHEM KAHANA (Photo credit should read MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images)

On a warm June day in 2011, Nili Philipp was powering her bike down Herzog Boulevard, a major thoroughfare in Beit Shemesh, a sleepy bedroom community in the Judean hills. A pretty, vivacious mother of five and fitness buff, Philipp is what American Jews would call “modern Orthodox” and Israelis call “national religious.” She keeps a kosher home and wears a knee-length skirt and head scarf, as traditional Jewish law demands, but she is also a confident college-trained engineer, with a smartphone and high-tech sneakers. As she rode, she tried to push the anxiety she felt to the back of her mind.

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