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Hadassa Margolese, fighter for religious tolerance, quits Beit Shemesh

Jewish Journal August 13, 2013

Two years ago, Hadassa Margolese became a symbol of resistance to Charedi Orthodox domination after she allowed her 8-year-old daughter to tell an Israeli reporter how religious men had spit on her as she walked to school.

A mother fights for daughter’s rights

Jewish Journal January 12, 2012

Because of her father’s Zionist dream to convince American Jews to move to Israel, Hadassa Margolese spent her adolescent years in the Pico-Robertson area. Now it is Margolese’s own Zionist dream that has turned her and her 8-year-old daughter Na’ama into heroines of the fight against ultra-Orthodox extremism in Israel.

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Hadassa Margolese, fighter for religious tolerance, quits Beit Shemesh

A mother fights for daughter’s rights

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