Moradot - A New Israeli Play by Amnon Levy
Date:
Thursday (in 123 days)
December 3 at 8:30 in the evening
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A new play by Amnon Levy in which a group of women in Mea Shearim decide to rebel against the leadership of their community. They use abstaining from their husbands to help their friend escape a miserable marriage. The play was inspired by a similar event in Satmar, New York.
In Mea She'arim, a group of women decided to revolt against the leadership of their community to save one of their own from a miserable and abusive marriage. They use the only ancient and effective weapon at their disposal: refusing their husbands. They refuse to go to the mikveh and initiate a boycott of marital relations until their friend is freed from the bonds of her marriage.
"The Rebels" is a touching and funny drama by Amnon Levy, depicting a women's struggle for equality in the most unexpected place. The women of the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood decide that the value of mutual help for a woman in distress prevails even over the commandment to be fruitful and multiply. They bravely confront the men, endure ostracism and persecution, yet continue their fight despite the heavy price.
Levy, who wrote the play "Sheidler," one of the great successes of Israeli theater, returns to the ultra-Orthodox woman in Mea She'arim and documents her struggle for independence. Levy draws inspiration for the play from a recent similar initiative of marital relations avoidance that took place in Satmar, New York, demanding the release of an agunah. The success of that initiative stunned the ultra-Orthodox world.
