{"id":94220,"date":"2016-04-26T11:21:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T19:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=94220"},"modified":"2016-04-26T11:21:54","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T19:21:54","slug":"haaretz-a-screenwriter-a-hasidic-mother-of-seven-and-a-sex-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=94220","title":{"rendered":"Haaretz: A Screenwriter, a Hasidic Mother of Seven, and a Sex Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Haaretz<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Marilyn Wennig, 36, uniquely combines the two estranged worlds of an ultra-Orthodox lifestyle with secular Israeli film and literature.<\/p>\n

A day after Marilyn Wennig was interviewed on Channel 2’s late night news show about the Oscars, she asked her parents how they liked the show. “You’ve put on a lot of weight,” they told her.
\nIn our interview she explains how in the secular world and the family in which she was raised in particular, appearance is a very important and competitive matter. This diverts attention from what is important, from the interior, says the lecturer and researcher of movies, screenwriter, poet, activist and film critic who became religious some 15 years ago.
\nThe mother of seven\u00a0is a member of the Belzer Hasidic sect. For Wennig,\u00a0covering one’s head and dressing modestly is\u00a0a kind of rebellion. Discovering\u00a0religion is also a feminist step.
\nWennig, 36, bursts a lot of myths in our interview. In fact the preconceptions collapse even before you meet her, just by reading\u00a0her latest\u00a0poetry collection,\u00a0“So What Do We Have Here.”
\nIn the poem called “Purity,”\u00a0she writes: “Do Haredi women touch themselves\/ By mistake, with excitement, without noticing.”
\nA poem about sex is not exactly what you would expect from an\u00a0ultra-Orthodox Israeli mother. But Marilyn Wennig doesn’t do the expected.
\nShe was born in Australia to Israeli parents, and the family returned to Israel when she was three. As a child she wrote for childrens’ newspapers,\u00a0appeared on children’s television shows and\u00a0went to the Experimental High School in Jerusalem. She\u00a0did her military service with the\u00a0IDF magazine Bamahane.
\nHer husband Erez Hever\u00a0was her first boyfriend. They separated and\u00a0then reconciled\u00a0at 21, got married and became religious. But whereas Hever is a full fledged yeshiva student, Wennig lives between worlds.\u00a0In her Jerusalem home she is a Belzer Hasid, her children learn in\u00a0Yiddish at\u00a0Hasidic schools. In Tel Aviv she meets with film industry people and\u00a0moves in an entirely different world.\u00a0
\n“Every day I go to Berlin,” she laughs.<\/p>\n

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