Naomi Ragen

In the heat of an upstate New York summer, at an Orthodox Jewish summer camp, seventeen-year-old Daniella Whartman met Steven Goodman. A precious, lively young woman from a privileged Orthodox family, she was drawn to his open heart, infectious smile, and joyful commitment to God. Together they seized the chance to live their dreams, and moved to Israel, penniless but deeply in love. Now, in the...

In 1950's Brooklyn, sisters Rose and Pearl Weiss grow up in a loving but strict ultra-Orthodox Jewish family, never dreaming of defying their parents or their community's unbending and intrusive demands. Then, a chance meeting with a young French immigrant turns Rose's world upside down, its once bearable strictures suddenly tightening like a noose around her neck. Defiantly, she be...