Women's Minyan (14 page)

Naomi Ragen

N
aomi Ragen is the author of several international bestsellers, among them
Jephte’s Daughter
,
Sotah
,
The Sacrifice of Tamar
,
The Ghost of Hannah Mendes, Chains Around the Grass,
and
The Covenant.
Born in New York, she earned a BA from Brooklyn College and an MA in English from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. For the past thirty years, she has made her home in Jerusalem. The translation of her books into Hebrew in 1995 has made her one of Israel’s best-beloved authors. An outspoken advocate for gender equality and human rights, she contributes to numerous periodicals, including
The Jerusalem Post
,
The Miami Herald
, and
Moment Magazine.
Ragen’s hit play
Women’s Minyan,
commissioned by Israel’s National Theater, Habimah, has been running for two years, and her weekly e-mail columns on life in the Middle East are read and distributed by thousands of subscribers worldwide.

The author welcomes reader comments and can be contacted at pob 23004, Jerusalem 91230, Israel, or through email: [email protected]