"Everybody has been talking about this and doing it, " says Mr. Robin, a statistician who lives in the town of BeitShemesh, which is populated by many descendants of Americans.
Just as poor, uneducated single mothers in Lod can be depended on to blame their troubles on an insensitive government, so groups of ultra-Orthodox extremists in BeitShemesh, whose own communities decry them, can be trusted to treat nonreligious women poorly.