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JERUSALEM MAIDEN Book Review

Jerusalem Maiden by Talia Carner is going to piss off the feminists among us.  Apart from that, though, this is a really good book!   What's Jerusalem Maiden about? The main character in Jerusalem Maiden is Esther, an early 1900s woman from an ultra-Orthodox sect of Judaism called Haredi. So, to say that Esther has limited freedom is putting it mildly. Esther exemplifies all that a "Jerusalem Maiden" goes through in order to...