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Reconstruction in No Man’s Land

By Atara Eis and Laurie Novick

Tradition | Fall 2019 Issue 51:4

Growing numbers of observant women have been abbreviating niddah in recent years. Sisters and sisters-in-law, female friends and acquaintances – all are spreading the news by word of mouth…. The trend of forgoing the seven “clean days” is reflected also in confessions by women on Facebook and has spread from the bastion of the liberal followers of Orthodoxy in Jerusalem to the religious periphery, and even has fans in the more conservative settlements. Has the great niddah revolt begun? Continue >>

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