Women's Minyan

Sun 1 Apr, 2 pm. 2 Millstone Campus Drive, St. Louis, 63146. Ken Weintraub, Presisdent and CEO, 314-442-3131. St. Louis Jewish Community Center - [email][events]

Second performance: 7:30pm. Ragen turns her clear, compassionate gaze on some of the more troubling issues in the ultra-Orthodox community while showing us the deep spiritual connection her characters have to their religion and to each other. Based on a true story, Ragen’s play, set in Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim, is an attempt to convey to the outside world the truth, beauty, and conflict of that closed society. When the wife of a highly respected ultra-orthodox Rabbi returns home to see her children having abandoned her family two years earlier, her women friends and relatives judge her fitness to do so. In the process, they explore the boundaries between religion and social convention