Zvi Jul/Aug 2006

I have lived in Israel 58 years now. And in Jerusalem, particularly in the ultra-Orthodox quarter, men do not speak with women or girls. Men must speak with men, and women with women, especially when it comes to faith. But times are changing. Today Orthodox women stop other women on the street, particularly on Fridays, to give them candles for the Sabbath that begins that evening. They stress t