Naomi Ragen (born July 10, 1949) is an American-Israeli Orthodox Jewish author, playwright and women’s rights activist. Ragen lives in Jerusalem and writes in English. A recurring theme in her fictional works is injustice against women in the Haredi Jewish community. She has been sued, and convicted in court, of plagiarism by several Haredi writers, from whose works she had plagiarized and then transformed the material to be used for purposes the original authors found offensive (i.e. fictionalized criticism of Haredim). Naomi Ragen (née Terlinsky) was born in New York City. She received an Orthodox Jewish education before completing a degree in literature at Brooklyn College. In 1971, she moved to Israel with her husband. In 1978, she received a master’s degree in literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has four children and lives in Jerusalem. Ragen’s first three novels describe the lives of Haredi Jewish women in Israel and the United States, dealing with them...