Religious women in liberal democracies are "dual citizens" because of their contrasting status as members of both a civic community (in which their gender has no impact on their constitutional guarantee of equal rights) and a traditional religious co...

This fascinating volume reveals some of the dark, dramatic episodes concealed in the folds of the hasidic cloak – shocking events and anomalous figures in the history of Hasidism. Using tools of detection, Assaf extracts historical truth from a varie...