"For Philipp, the attack on Daniel was “beyond the beyond.” “Attacking a mother with a young child in her arms—” recalls Philipp, her eyes filling with tears. “She was completely helpless.” The incident drove her to do something she would previously never have contemplated. Like most Orthodox women, there was little about the word “feminism” that spoke to Philipp. She did not consider herself political. But as tensions grew in Beit Shemesh, she had started to follow the debates in online women’s groups, “deep debates,” she says, “about pluralistic society, tolerance.” It was, she says, “first real exchange with secular and non-Orthodox Israelis.”" Surprise for me: The video featured, about the Orot school violence, is the version I translated and uploaded.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 04:02:16 +0000
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