The ultra-Orthodox world is banning the internet for women, cutting them off from their livelihoods, their social networks, and their access to information. We obviously find this appalling and infantilizing, but do the women of that world agree? Shoshanna and Anne speak with an insider who tells all.
Music: “Misery” by The Whips
The documentary 93Queen tells the story of Judge Ruchie Freier and her all-women ambulance corps, an unlikely story of women’s empowerment coming from an even more unlikely quarter: the hasidim of Brooklyn. Chochmat Nashim sits down with the film’s creator, Paula Eiselt, to talk about the hurdles and downright nastiness the women overcame, as well as what it means to enter the hasidic world with a video camera.
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